BREAKING: Suspected Fulani Herders Kill Three Relatives Of Benue Governor, Ortom | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/GkeYWOxX69 pic.twitter.com/FDNu14mOpb
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Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Nathaniel Ikyur, in a statement said the victims were killed on Saturday at about 5:00pm when the button men laid an ambush and blocked the Lordye-Gbajimba Road.
The statement reads, "At about 5:00pm Saturday, February 19, 2022, suspected Fulani
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...button men killed two males and a female while returning from a burial along Iordye-Gbajimba Road in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
"The victims were riding on a cycle of violence when they were ambushed and rubbed out by the killer herdsmen. The two went titzup from gunshot wounds while the other was brutally macheted to death.
"Soldiers attached to Operation Whirl Stroke recovered the bodies and deposited the corpses at Gbajimba General Hospital.
"Sadly, this has been the plight of Benue indigenes in the hands of Fulani herdsmen who have invaded the state in a bid to take over our ancestral lands."
The latest incident comes a few days after five persons including a father and his son, were killed by suspected armed herdsmen in an attack on Tse Udeghe community, Mbakpa Council Ward and Ahumen community in Gwer West Local Government Area of the state.