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by: George Okoh in Lafia
Over 40 people have been killed in Rukubi, Doma Local
Government Area of Nasarawa State, by men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.
Community leaders who conducted the Deputy Governor, Mr.
Dameshi Barau Luka, round the crisis-hit area, said the people were killed when
the herdsmen invaded the community on Wednesday night in a raid in which over
35 houses and four cars belonging to the Agatu people of the area were also torched.
More bodies were being recovered when the deputy governor
led a delegation of members of the State Security Council on an on-the-spot
assessment of the extent of the damage.
The spokesman of the development area, Mustapha Danladi
Ayaga, who was part of the team that conducted the delegation round the
community, told them that the gunmen invaded the community and went after
selected houses belonging to the Agatu
people.
He said the death toll might be higher as the search for
bodies and missing persons was still ongoing.
Ayaga said the gunmen, dressed in riot police uniform and
armed with sophisticated weapons, including AK47 and explosives, also abducted
two members of the community.
“Over 500 militants dressed in riot police uniforms and
heavily armed with sophisticated weapons ranging from AK47 guns, sub-machine
guns and explosives, shot sporadically as they were strategically positioned
round the village to ensure that all inhabitants of the locality were
consumed”, he said.
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