On Monday, the Benue State Police Command confirmed that three people had been killed in an attack at the Tse Ngban village in the Nyiev Council Ward of the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
The corpse of the deceased has been sent to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, according to SP. Catherine Anene, one of the Command’s public relations officers, who confirmed the incident.
The incident happened on Sunday night, according to Mr. Julious Moab, a local resident who lived nearby earlier.
According to him, villagers ran to a safe place as soon as they noticed three persons have been killed.
According to him, the attackers besieged the Tse Ngban around 7pm and unleashed terror on the inhabitants, adding that a woman was killed on the spot while the two others died shortly after the attack from the injuries inflicted on them by the armed assailants.