Virtually all markets in Anambra State were closed on Saturday as indigenes complied with a sit-at-home order declared by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
In Awka, the state capital, the major streets were empty while the main market, Eke Awka, was deserted. There were however skeletal trading at Amaenyi and Kwata markets.
In Onitsha, two people suspected to be members of MASSOB were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in somersaulted as they tried to escape from security agents that were pursuing them.