Burial of 13 Benue attack victims postponed over missing mortician

The planned burial of 13 victims killed during a caller onslaught by suspected equipped herdsmen successful Turan community, Jato-Aka, successful Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, has been postponed pursuing the disappearance of a mortician astatine the installation wherever the corpses were kept.

Families of the deceased and members of the Concerned Sons and Daughters of Turan Community had earlier fixed Thursday, March 12, 2026, for a wide burial.

Preparations were already underway successful Mbachom community, wherever sympathisers and residents gathered successful anticipation of the funeral.

However, the ceremonial was halted aft relatives were incapable to retrieve the bodies from the mortuary.

A comparative of 1 of the victims, Bemgba Numve, who spoke to journalists successful the community, said the improvement near grieving families confused and frustrated.

“My member was killed successful the onslaught and we planned to hide each 13 of them today. People gathered from antithetic places to witnesser the burial, but we could not retrieve the bodies from the mortuary,” helium said.

Numve explained that erstwhile household members arrived astatine the mortuary, they were ...