Suspected armed herdsmen amputate boat operator in Benue, injure others

Residents of Makurdi, Benue State superior person been gripped by fearfulness pursuing a convulsive onslaught by suspected Fulani militants that near a vessel relation amputated and 3 others earnestly injured astatine Afubo Island.

The incidental occurred astir 6:15 p.m. connected Wednesday, adjacent the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering, little than 2 kilometres from the 72 Special Forces Battalion.

Victims see a canoe motor driver, Jerry Saleh, whose limb was severed, alongside 2 brothers, Edoh and Adah Adikwu, who sustained machete wounds.

An unidentified Tiv husbandman besides suffered life-threatening injuries.

The victims are receiving attraction astatine the Federal Medical Centre and Sandra Hospital Makurdi.

Eyewitnesses said the unit began aft a quality implicit proscription fares.

About 10 passengers reportedly refused to wage aft boarding a motorised canoe from Wadata Market to Afubo Island.

Sources said the concern escalated erstwhile immoderate of the passengers allegedly contacted equipped accomplices waiting astatine the island.

On arrival, the attackers reportedly descended connected passengers and adjacent res...