Seven killed as Tensionboils Benue state communities

At least, seven folks were reportedly killed during the Christmas ruin in  separate assaults on Adim Akpa and Utonkon groups in Otukpo and Ado Local Government areas of Benue State.

It was accumulated that gunmen stormed the village on motorbikes in the evening of Saturday, capturing sporadically, leaving two humans useless at the same time as a few others sustained injuries, and then they fled the scene.

“The rely was without delay said to the Police in Otukpo, who entreated the humans to stay calm, promising to pork up safety in the vicinity.

“But as I speak with you, the humans have all abandoned their homes on the lookout for a safe vicinity,” a source informed newsmen in Otukpo.

Another eyewitness account found out that the attack on Utonkon changed into additionally achieved by using another set of four armed men on motorbikes, who stormed the network at the same time as a number of the locals had been busy sharing the meat they mutually offered for the Yuletide celebration.

According to the witness, “I had gone to the village to go to a chum at about 2p.M., when unexpectedly we noticed about 4 guys on motorbikes, armed with pump movement riffles capturing sporadically on the human beings, who have been busy sharing the meat they offered for the Christmas festivities.

“People scampered for protection, ladies and youngsters have been crying and running into close by bushes to take cowl, but about 5 individuals had been not so fortunate— they had been gunned down in cold blood.

“The armed men, at a point, came down from their bikes and started moving from one compound to another, as if they have been searching for some thing or any individual, shooting at anything in sight including animals.

“Shortly thereafter, after all of them hooked up their motorcycles and fled the scene. As we talk, the injured had been rushed to the General Hospital in Igumale.”



The nation’s Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Moses Yamu, who confirmed the incidents, but, said 4 folks were killed inside the  separate assaults.

His phrases: “We suspect the attack at Adim Akpa became a reprisal for the 2 herdsmen who, few weeks ago, have been passing thru that community without cows, however went lacking with out trace until date.”

On the Utonkon assault, Yamu stated: “The data at my disposal indicated that two individuals had been killed and five others are in essential situation on the sanatorium.

“That assault turned into done with the aid of unknown gunmen, who stormed the village on motorbikes. But we have arrested on character with a regionally-made shot gun and research into the problem continues to be ongoing.”