Suspected Fulani herdsmen are said to have killed three people in the Mshen hamlet of Nyihemba, located in the Mbaikyor Ward of Kwande Local Government Area, Benue State, on their way back from Jato-Aka Market.
The accused Fulani bandits carried away the victims’ money and belongings.
Igbawua Gandepun, the ward’s youth leader and an eyewitness, stated that the attack happened about a kilometer from the army camp at Government Secondary School in Anwase.
He claimed that irate young people from the neighborhood protested by bringing the victims’ bodies to the military camp, claiming that they had failed to protect them.
He said: “Herders ambushed and killed two victims, a housewife and a petty female trader, Andeh Aondover, as well as a motorcycle rider, Boki Tyodzua. After killing them, the herders took away all of Tyodzua’s money and all of the goods that Andeh had purchased.
He bemoaned the fact that farmers in the region had not yet started to clear their fields because herders had slain those who tried to do so and no one had yet to see their bodies.