Benue: Armed herders strike Yelewata again, two injured

Suspected equipped herdsmen person reportedly launched different onslaught connected Yelewata assemblage successful Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, leaving 2 residents injured successful the latest incident.

The affected assemblage had earlier suffered a devastating battle connected June 13, 2025, erstwhile much than 200 radical were killed, forcing galore survivors into Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camps.

A section leader, who requested anonymity, revealed that the attackers stormed the country connected Sunday day alongside their cattle and engaged soldiers deployed to unafraid the community.

According to him, “The onslaught happened successful the day erstwhile the herders were openly grazing toward Yelewata town. Soldiers moved to intercept them, and erstwhile the herders realised they were astir to beryllium apprehended, they began moving back,” helium said.

The root added, “The soldiers fired informing shots into the aerial to halt them, but the herders opened occurrence portion retreating. Two radical were deed precise adjacent to my house.”

He explained that 1 of the victims, a woman, was changeable successful the hand, portion different idiosyncratic sustained a gunshot coiled to the leg. Both were promptly treated and evacuated by the Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BSEMA) to Makurdi for further aesculapian care.