Herdsmen brutally attack three Tiv and Jukun villages in Wukari LGA of Taraba State, killing six and injuring many

Fulani herdsmen have brutally attacked three Tiv and Jukun villages in Wukari LGA of Taraba State, killing six and injuring 14 people at the weekend.Sources also added that there were other attacks in Gassol, Takum and Donga communities. In the latest offensive, Fulani marauders attacked and reduced the entire Tundun-Wada, a Jukun settlement to ashes.

Scores were also feared killed in the broad-day attack, eye-witnesses said. A member of the Taraba State House of Assembly representing Wukari II constituency, Hon. Daniel Ishaya Gani said the victims are Tiv and Jukun farmers.

He described the violence as “very unfortunate”, saying the attackers are Fulani, with mercenaries among them.

Gani who spoke to the newsmen on Saturday gave the casualty figure as six, but sources said at least 10 people were massacred while their bodies may be laying in the bush.

Nigerian Eye