Herdsmen kill 2 teachers, 4 others in Benue

suspected herdsmen, again, killed  six  people, among them, two  teachers of Makurdi Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) Ikpayongo, Gwer Local Government Area of Benue State.

Colleagues of the teachers told newsmen   that the victims were among the 10 persons that went to access farm land for rice cultivation, under the auspices  of a cooperative society on Wednesday, but were ambushed and shot.

They  said four  of the teachers managed to escape with wounds, while six others were not so lucky as they were said to have been killed and their bodies dismembered.

It was gathered that bodies of the deceased  were recovered  on Thursday with the assistance of some security operatives.

The colleagues, who spoke,   gave the names of just two of the deceased, who were teachers  as  Mr Stephen Tavaku, the head teacher of St. Mary’s Primary School, North Bank, Makurdi, while the other victim was identified as Mr Christian Anankpa, a PhD student of the  Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria who was the Basic Science teacher, St Mary’s UBE Junior Secondary School, North Bank, Makurdi.

Efforts to get the police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, to confirm the incident, were not successful as he did not pick calls put across to him.