Five persons lost their lives in the nationwide protests against fuel subsidy removal in the Edo State capital, a mosque and Islamic school were burnt in Benin City on Tuesday.
The attacks started on Monday amid street protests against soaring fuel prices, when a crowd separated from the main demonstration attacked a mosque and terrorised residents of mainly Hausa neighbourhoods.
Five deaths has been recorded so far in Edo, the Secretary General of the Nigerian Red Cross in Edo State, Dan Enowoghomwenwa, told AFP.
Also no fewer than two persons have lost their lives in Osogbo, Osun State, following the crisis emanating from protests against Federal Government removal of fuel subsidy.
Mojeed Rahimi, an Osobgo-based hip-hop musician popularly known as Apanpa, who suffered machete wounds during protests in Jaleyemi area of Osogbo, on Monday, gave up the ghost at 2am, on Tuesday.