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Gun-wielding herdsmen who laid an ambush on the busy Makurdi-Lafia road around Ortese in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State have killed three travellers and injured several others in an attack on Friday. This is coming about a week after the armed herders also ambushed and killed three Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, who went fishing in Gwer West LGA area of the state.

No fewer than three persons have been killed and a few others injured by some armed herders along the Benue-Nasarawa road on Friday. The gun-wielding

According him, it was not a road block, “the armed herdsmen stood on the Daudu – Ortese road. They killed two persons yesterday Thursday, at about 5pm and injured one person who is receiving treatment at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, BSUTH.

Hundreds of women have mounted road block on Makurdi/Laafia/Abuja federal highway following the killing of five people by suspected herders.

  The fresh killing of five people in two villages of Benue State by suspected armed invaders has sparked off massive protests along the Makurdi-Lafia federal highway. Our correspondent reports that hundreds of women and youth from the affected communities of Guma Local Government Area trooped out early on Friday morning to mount road blocks…