Bandits kill 2 soldiers, 6 residents in Benue

From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

Bandits on Tuesday afternoon, invaded Egwuma community in Agatu LGA and killed six inhabitants of the community.
An eye witness said soldiers deployed to the area adamantly refused to respond to the attack and when the bandits finished with the community members, they went to the soldiers base and attacked them.
According to the witness who pleaded anonymity, the bandits took four(4)of the soldiers motorcycle, killed two (2) of them.
“The entire community has been deserted. There is nobody left behind again, except for the few soldiers that are remaining there.
“The caretaker committee chairman of Agatu LGC has drawn the attention of the state government to this attack and we are still waiting for them to do the needful so as to avert further attacks.
“The bandits had before now attacked this same community in the past and killed 12 people before soldiers were drafted to the area. I don’t know why they still came back to attack our people even with the presence of armed soldiers.
“This is a terrible situation, we need more presence of armed security personnel in the community. Nobody knows the mission of these invaders.
Efforts to get reaction of the military on the incident failed.
When contacted the Police Public Relations’ Office said in a text message, ‘I don’t have this report please’.