Breaking - Herds men kills 17 in benue state.

Suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Wednesday attacked Ebete, Usha ward in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State and killed no fewer than 17 persons.

The unprovoked attack on Agatu people started at around 1am when people were asleep.

An eyewitness to the attack, Daddy Seni, whose father was among those killed alongside his siblings, said he received a call from his father while on a fishing trip asking him to come back home as his father said he had been shot by Fulani herdsmen.

He said on getting back to where his father was, he realised that his father was lying in a pool of his blood, adding that as he attemped to take his father to the hospital, his father said: “My son, don’t bother about me and your siblings again, ours have finished, we can’t survive this gunshots, run for your dear life to tell others about this.”

Seni said that after his father’s statement, he gave up the ghost.

The deceased son, who narrated the incidence to Agatu Council Chairman, Hon Alhaji Oyigocho, who had rushed to Ebete with some council members alongside security men, said he heard the killers speaking Fulani language while trying to run from the scene as he (Seni the deceased son) hid himself in the bush.

He said among the 16 persons that were killed by the herdsmen, three were Jukum hunters, while another two of the hunters who sustained bullet wounds were rushed to the nearby hospital.

Reacting to the unfortunate incident, the Acting Chairman, Agatu Local Government Council, Hon Alhaji Oyigocho, appealed to the government to quickly come to their aid, saying, this is happening at a time Nigerians are preparing to elect their new leaders on Saturday, adding that if the situation continues, it will disorganise so many things.