The Nigeria Army deployed to contain the recent Fulani attacks that has claimed over 200 lives and displaced thousands of the Tiv people of Nasarawa and Benue states, Troop on Thursday killed at least 50 Fulani insurgents in Keana local government area of Nasarawa state in a gun duel. In lafia, Fulani insurgents numbering 10 were brought to the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, DASH, Lafia the state capital by a police pickup van and deposited at the mortuary while about 20 others were deposited at the general hospital Keana as well as several others still in the bush.
Source confirmed in Lafia that the army launched an offensive on the terrorist while acting on a tipoff about their hideouts in Maraba Giza and Tse-Azer where they have taken over the ancestral home of the Tivs in the area. Vanguard reports that the Keana general hospital mortuary could no longer contain the number of dead bodies hence the conveyance of the remaining ones to Lafia.
