Gunmen suspected to be armed herdsmen have killed three kinsmen of Benue State governor, Dr Samuel Ortom.
WuzupNigeria gathered that the three persons, two males and a female, were killed on Saturday around 5pm, when the assailants laid an ambush and blocked the Lordye- Gbajimba road in Guma Local Government Area of the state.
The victims were riding a motorcycle when they were ambushed and shot dead by the killer herdsmen who have occupied parts of the local government bordering Nasarawa State.
Security agencies, who recovered the bodies, said that some were killed on the spot while others were brutally macheted to death.
Soldiers attached to Operation Whirl Stroke subsequently found the bodies and deposited the corpses at Gbajimba general hospital.
A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ortom, Mr Nat Ikyur, on Saturday night, said; “This has been the plight of Benue indigenes in the hands of Fulani herdsmen who have invaded the state in a bid to take over our ancestral lands”.
