Tears as armed herdsmen kill 4 police officers in Benue state

• Suspected equipped Fulani herdsmen person attacked different assemblage successful the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State
• The equipped killed astatine slightest 4 constabulary officers successful the Udei assemblage connected Sunday afternoon, June 29, 2025
• The latest onslaught is coming hardly 2 weeks aft implicit 200 radical were killed successful the Yelewata community

Legit.ng writer Adekunle Dada has implicit 8 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary issues

Benue state - Suspected Fulani herdsmen person killed 4 Mobile Policemen successful Udei assemblage successful Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

The tragic incidental occurred connected Sunday afternoon, June 29, 2025, erstwhile the equipped herdsmen attacked the community.

Herdsmen onslaught Benue community, termination 4 constabulary officers. Photo credit: @Naija_PR
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This is coming astir 16 days aft a akin onslaught connected the neighbouring Yelewata assemblage that claimed implicit 200 lives.

It is gathered that the Udei assemblage is little than a 15-minute thrust from the Yelewata community.

As reported by Vanguard, the gunmen were reportedly repelled by a combined squad of information agencies and the youths of neighbouring Daudu portion attempting to tempest the community.

The herdsmen invaded the Asha community, changeable sporadically, chasing people distant from their farms

The onslaught yet escalated to Ortese, which is location to thousands of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs.

The erstwhile acting Chairman of Benue State Universal Basic Education Board, Matthew Mnyan, said, “the onslaught started astatine astir 11 americium astatine Asha, which is precise adjacent to Ortese.

Mnyan said the equipped herdsmen began pursuing radical from their farms, and it escalated to Ortese.

“In what looked similar a coordinated attack, they besides attacked Udei astatine astir 2 pm, and 4 Mobile Policemen were killed successful the shootout.“I was told that they are inactive astir adjacent now. They person reappeared astatine Ortese this evening. As we speak, radical are successful fear.“When I called the Area Commander, helium said helium has mobilised to Udei, and I learnt they went successful their numbers, but it is getting acheronian and radical are entertaining fear. Even the IDPs successful Ortese are each successful fearfulness and calling that they request much security.”

Armed herdsmen termination 10 worshippers successful Benue

Recall that nary less than 10 worshippers were killed by equipped herdsmen astatine Gbagir assemblage successful the Ukum section authorities country of Benue state.

The equipped herdsmen attacked and killed the Christian worshippers connected Good Friday, April 18, 2025.

It was gathered that the herdsmen ambushed worshippers connected their mode to commemorate the suffering and decease of Jesus Christ.

Benue Killings: "It's Not Farmers-Herders Clash"

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was told that the situation rocking Benue authorities was not herders-farmers situation but a full coercion and genocidal act.

Professor James Ayatse, the paramount ruler of the Tiv Nation globally, told the president portion speaking astatine a town-hall gathering organised connected the petition of President Tinubu.

The President had visited the authorities to commiserate with the victims of the Yelwata assemblage successful the Guma LGA past Friday, June 13, 2025.

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