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One soldier killed, two others injured as herdsmen attack Ortom’s village

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One soldier killed, two others injured as herdsmen attack Ortom's village

The home town of Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has been attacked by heavily armed herdsmen, killing a soldier and wounding two others.

According to reports, the incident took place early Saturday in Nzorov ward in Guma Local Government Area of Venue State, when the armed herdsmen clashed with soldiers attached to the military Operation Whirl Stroke.

Operation Whirl Stroke is the military’s code name for its operation in Benue to combat rampaging herdsmen that have been wrecking harvoc on Benue communinities. Several hundreds of locals have been killed with properties worth millions destroyed.

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According to a resident of the area who spoke to Vanguard, heavy exchange of gunfire including from helicopter gunships deployed by the military, was still going on in the area between troops attached to the operation and the heavily armed herdsmen who stormed the area from Keana and Awe local government areas of Nasarawa state.

The resident said: “There is ongoing gun battle at the moment in Nzorov ward between soldiers of Operation Whirl Stroke and well armed militant herdsmen who for days have been moving into Guma in their numbers but this morning on sighting the personnel of operation an exchange heavy fighting ensued which led to the death of one of the soldiers and the injury of two others who we gathered have all been conveyed to the Air Force Military Hospital in Makurdi.”

 

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