The on-going hostilities
between Fulani herdsmen and farmers at Tom-Anyiin and Tom-Ataan communities,
Mbaya, Tombu in Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State resurfaced and has
left many dead.
This is just as the Council
Chairman, Godwin Iorsue, the Divisional Police Officer at Buruku, the Area
Commander and other stakeholders in the area, on assessment tour of the
communities, were ambushed and attacked by the herdsmen who had seized the area
and sacked the inhabitants.
The crisis has created a
huge refugee situation in the area with over 300 people displaced from the
affected communities and scores injured in the bloody clash.
A source from one of the
affected communities disclosed that the Fulani invaders stormed the communities
late Saturday night, shooting sporadically and burning down houses, huts, food
barn, farmland and economic trees.
The source said: “As I
speak with you, fighting is still raging in the affected communities. Although
I cannot give you a precise figure of the dead, about 10 have been killed, many
are missing and many others sustained injures.”
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