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| Governor Samuel Ortom |
Governor
Samuel Ortom has confirmed the attack noting an increase in the number of
casualties recorded.
Ortom
confirmed the attack after the Benue State Security Council meeting held on
Tuesday.
After five
persons, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Guma and Logo Local
Government Area, six livestock guards were also killed in Sanghev ward.
Governor
Ortom also visited victims of the attack while receiving treatment from gunshot
injuries at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital.
The Chief
Medical Director confirmed to the governor that they received 11 bodies and
nine injured victims out of which three died while being treated.
The
killings prompted the emergency state security council meeting, which was
chaired by the governor but the resolve of the meeting is yet unknown.
Despite
the law banning open grazing in Benue state, the herdsmen attacks against
communities in the state have not ceased.
~Channels
~Channels
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