Police inspector killed as suspected herdsmen attack checkpoint in Benue

Troops of Operation WHIRL STROKE (OPWS), alongside a mobile constabulary team, responded aft suspected equipped herdsmen attacked a checkpoint astatine Ayilamo successful Logo Local Government Area of Benue State.

On sighting the troops, the attackers fled into adjacent bushes.

The information unit past launched a follow-up cognition successful the country to way the fleeing suspects and reconstruct calm.

During the operation, troops recovered the assemblage of a constabulary inspector who was killed successful the attack.

His remains person been deposited astatine the Ayilamo Hospital mortuary for autopsy and different procedures.

Authorities said the onslaught was different reminder of the information challenges inactive facing parts of Benue, wherever agrarian communities and information formations stay targets.

The subject said patrols and surveillance had been intensified astir Uzer, Ayilamo and different borderline areas of Logo LGA, portion efforts were ongoing to apprehend those down the onslaught and forestall a repeat.

Residents person been urged to stay calm and unpaid utile accusation to information agencies.

The spokesperson of the Benue State Police Command, DSP Orchia Aondogwu, could not beryllium reached to corroborate the incidental arsenic of property time, arsenic cal...