The Police have arrested seven suspected cultists, including two females, following incessant clashes between rival cult groups in Mushin area of Lagos.

Divisional Police Officer in Olosan area of Mushin, Adekunle Omisakin, said the suspects, aged between eighteen and twenty-three, were arrested in Ladipo area.

Omisakin, a Chief Superintendent of Police said the gangs had been terrorising residents of Mushin with their incessant clashes.

According to him, three cutlasses, charms and one axe were recovered from them.

He said they would be transferred to Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, Ikeja for further investigation.

Some of the suspects, claimed that they were commercial bus conductors in Mushin, stressing that they were not part of the cult groups.

More than twenty suspected cultists were arrested and paraded by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, since the beginning of the year.