Troops respond to Benue communal clash, chase escaping assailants

Soldiers attached to Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, person stepped into a communal struggle involving the Agbaka and Anyiase communities successful Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

Security sources revealed that troops stationed successful Ukpiam were deployed astir 12:10 p.m. connected May 1 aft reports emerged of renewed hostilities betwixt the 2 communities.

According to the sources, by the clip the information squad arrived astatine the troubled area, a fig of houses had already been torched by the attackers, who escaped earlier troops could prosecute them.

The sources further stated that the soldiers rapidly launched a pursuit of the fleeing suspects on their flight route, though nary arrests had been recorded astatine the clip of filing this report.

They explained that further information unit person since been deployed to the country to forestall different outbreak of violence, portion efforts proceed to place and apprehend those down the attack.

The sources besides confirmed that investigations are ongoing arsenic authorities intensify moves to reconstruct bid and stableness successful the affected communities.

Troops respond to Benue communal clash, pursuit escaping assailants