About 7 bodies have been recovered from early Tuesday’s attack on Abagena community in Benue State by suspected herders.
Although the assailants did not enter the Internally Displaced Persons camp its host community housing a huge percentage of the IDPs was badly affected spreading panic within and outside the camp.
This led to youths of the area blocking the Makurdi-Lafia-Abuja Expressway causing gridlock and tension amongst travellers who were barred from passing.
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The State Governor Samuel Ortom however visited the scene and appealed to the youths to exercise restraint and open up the road to commuters and allow him take the recovered bodies to the mortuary.
He vowed to rather die than preside over dead bodies, insisting that the killings are one too many and must be stopped forthwith.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
