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At least seven people have been killed in a fresh attack on Agbo Vengav Udam community in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected armed herders.

Residents told PUNCH Online that the assailants stormed the village around 7 pm on Thursday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing seven on the spot and abducting three others.

A local source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attackers entered the community through a border village in Otukpo LGA.

“They passed through the border village of Otukpo and, entering into Agbo, they shot their guns sporadically, killing the seven people on the spot. They took away three people with them,” a resident of the affected community who did not want to state his name said.

It was gathered that an infant was among those killed and that the mother was abducted by the assailants.

The witness added that five of the bodies have been deposited in a morgue in Naka, while the families of the remaining two deceased opted to bury their dead without delay.

The incident, according to residents, has caused them to desert their homes for fear of further attacks.


Chairman of Gwer West LGA, Victor Ormin, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the phone on Friday.

Omin, who lamented that the killing was coming after commercial vehicles were hijacked and passengers taken away, decried the activities of suspected armed herders in the local government.

The council boss said, “It’s true that scores of people were killed at Vengav Udam village within the local government Thursday night.

“Two people who are critically injured during the attack are receiving treatment in Naka hospital, and the situation is becoming unbearable, the way these armed herders are wreaking havoc in the local government and the state as a whole.”

However, calls and messages put through to the Police Public Relations Officer for Benue command, Catherine Anene, were not answered.

Recall that some gunmen intercepted two commercial vehicles about three kilometres from Naka, headquarters of Gwer West LGA, on Thursday and abducted 14 passengers.

iwaeda:
At least seven people have been killed in a fresh attack on Agbo Vengav Udam community in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected armed herders.

Residents told PUNCH Online that the assailants stormed the village around 7 pm on Thursday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing seven on the spot and abducting three others.

A local source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attackers entered the community through a border village in Otukpo LGA.

“They passed through the border village of Otukpo and, entering into Agbo, they shot their guns sporadically, killing the seven people on the spot. They took away three people with them,” a resident of the affected community who did not want to state his name said.

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It was gathered that an infant was among those killed and that the mother was abducted by the assailants.

The witness added that five of the bodies have been deposited in a morgue in Naka, while the families of the remaining two deceased opted to bury their dead without delay.

The incident, according to residents, has caused them to desert their homes for fear of further attacks.


Chairman of Gwer West LGA, Victor Ormin, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the phone on Friday.

Omin, who lamented that the killing was coming after commercial vehicles were hijacked and passengers taken away, decried the activities of suspected armed herders in the local government.

The council boss said, “It’s true that scores of people were killed at Vengav Udam village within the local government Thursday night.

“Two people who are critically injured during the attack are receiving treatment in Naka hospital, and the situation is becoming unbearable, the way these armed herders are wreaking havoc in the local government and the state as a whole.”

However, calls and messages put through to the Police Public Relations Officer for Benue command, Catherine Anene, were not answered.

Recall that some gunmen intercepted two commercial vehicles about three kilometres from Naka, headquarters of Gwer West LGA, on Thursday and abducted 14 passengers.


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kaltonga:
Tiv people in una next life if una hear Fula una no go wait for the ni before una pick race.
My sympathy for you people seized the moment I realized how foolish you people are cos it's only a fool that will sit and watch the systematic genocide carried out on your people without organizing yourselves for defence.
It's only an idiot that will still have faith in a system that watches the daily slaughter of your people without doing a thing or lifting a finger. All the Native doctors wey dey Tiv land wetin be their work, all the ancestors of Tiv land what are they waiting for? Akume is their talking about 2027, Suswan saying the same, Paul Onongo has lost his voice Tor Tiv is confused, all the retired Generals are their mopping but if na other tribe now una go pounce on them , I no longer pity you cowards

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/suspected-herders-kill-seven-in-fresh-benue-attack/

Fiscus105:
Wen they were passing through

SmartPolician:
In a sane country, Governor Alia would've stepped down because he obviously cannot do that job. There's nothing sane about Nigeria.

kennyz247:
This Benue mather done pass pastor alias power

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/suspected-herders-kill-seven-in-fresh-benue-attack/

ZombiePUNISHER:
A good leader will nip it in the bud in 24 hrs

relocate all service chiefs to the zone

declare a night curfew

Comb all the forests

introduce a forest guard agency

strength intelligence

this marauders aren't ghosts

PlasmaTV:
Again?!!!
This is no longer an act of ordinary terrorism. This is a coordinated attack to wipe out clans and tribes and villages.

Is it till herdsmen kill everybody that the government will wake up to her duties?

saddler:
No state of emergency in Benue because Benue has got no oil.


In this useless country, oil is more important than human lives.


Na that oil money go kee all of una Nigeria leaders.

tojahh:
Nothing will be done till them touch one of the politician or members of his/her immediate family na that time Rev. Alia go wake up.

By the way where's Benuejosh?
Where's 2baba?