Just when you thought you’ve seen it all. A giant rat and cock were involved in a deadly fight as residents gathered in their numbers to watch in shock. The incident happened last two weeks in Okoba neighbourhood in Awo-Ekiti.
According to Mercy Dabs communications, eyewitnesses revealed that they pursued the rat twice but still came back to the spot to resume the fight.
An elderly man from the neighborhood who witnessed the fight said, “It was not an attack on the cock, it was two fighting, both of them were actively involved. We were surprised at seeing the two different types of animal fighting this morning. What drew our attention to them in the first place was that giant rats do not come out in the daytime. It was already around 7.15am. In fact, when it is seen in the daytime, it has spiritual interpretation—it mostly signifies evil.
“The youths wanted to kill it the first time, but it escaped. We were not even expecting it back. But it came back shortly and they made effort again to capture it, but still narrowly escaped the second time. People gathered in surprise to see the giant rat come back to resume fight with the same cock”
According to them, the cock fought earnestly but it eventually lost its life to the fight that lasted for about 25 minutes in the neighborhood.
Having seen that it has killed the cock, the spectators descended on the strange rat and killed it too.