INSECURITY: AGAIN, GUNMEN KILL EIGHT IN BENUE
0
0
0
0
INSECURITY:
AGAIN, GUNMEN KILL EIGHT IN BENUE
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen on have again unleashed terror in some communities in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State, killing eight people.
Residents of the affected communities, such as Ogwumogbo, Ikpele, and Ejima, were reported to have fled their villages.
Agatu communities have consistently witnessed armed herders attacks in the past two weeks, with troops and civilians killed.
In the first attack, five people, including three troops, were ambushed and killed.
Force Commander of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, Major General Sunday Igbinowanhia, who later confirmed the killing of three troops to journalists in Makurdi, said that the troops engaged the armed herders in a gun duel that lasted for three hours and successfully repelled the armed herders who might have lost many people in their fold.
He said, “Three deceased comprised of two soldiers and one Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel were recorded, and two other soldiers were wounded and receiving treatment at the Nigerian Air Force hospital in Makurdi.”
Barely five days after, the former Commissioner for Information, Culture, and Tourism, Mike Inalegwu, who hails from the LG, confirmed another attack leading to the death of two people.
About The Author
