Farmers in Anyiase and Ikyoawen in the Moon Council Ward of the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State have continued to flee in droves following the attack and killing of four farmers who were working on their farms in the early hours of Friday in separate ambushes.
A community leader, Lawrence Akerigba, who disclosed this to Business Day in a telephone interview, explained that the armed men suspected to be marauding herdsmen carried out the attack separately in the two communities, adding that many people, including women and children, were injured while scores are still missing.
Akerigba said the attackers also killed an unconfirmed number of farmers in Anyiase before moving to the Ikyoawen community, where they shot 4 farmers who were working separately on their farms, killing 3 on the spot, even as he described both attacks as unprovoked.
He said two other persons, including a woman, were seriously injured in Ikyoawen and were rushed to a hospital in Jato-Aka; however, the man was later transferred to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, but was confirmed dead on reaching the hospital, bringing the number of those killed to four.
He informed that security personnel alongside youths are combing the bushes in search to recover more bodies.
