No fewer than 18 people, including women and children, were killed on Thursday evening at Ukohol community in Guma Local Government Area, Benue State.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Nath Ikyur, said that many others were injured after an unprovoked herdsmen attack on the community while hundreds of those displaced were seen moving to the neighbouring town of Daudu on foot with the few belongings they could pick.
He said attacks on Benue community, especially those on boarder community of Logo, Guma, Makurdi and Gwer West, has become a recurrent decimal without a solution by the military who are heavily deployed to the areas.
The Nation gathered from a member of the community, Paul Anongo, that the heavily armed suspected herdsmen stormed the community at about 8 pm on Thursday and operated until 12 midnight unchallenged.
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They were said to have shot and killed harmless farmers through the evening as people ran in different directions to escape.
After the killings in the village, the military quickly moved in and provided cover for the bodies to be buried.
At press time, police were yet to comment on the bloody attack as the Police spokesperson Kate Anene, SP, neither replied the text messages sent to her phone not picked her calls.
The Chairman of Logo Local Government Area, Mrs Salome Shiden Tsavsar, told our correspondent in an interview that herdsmen had killed no fewer than 95 people while more than 10,000 people were displaced in different parts of the state between August and October.