Unknown Gunmen Kill Soldiers in Benue, Taraba Border

Unknown gunmen at the early hour of Sunday attacked soldiers on patrol at a border town of Tseke,Kante-Chenkai in Benue/Taraba States, killing two soldiers while two others were abducted and  patrol vehicles destroyed.

A source in the area disclosed that some of the soldiers escaped with serious injuries.

According to the source, "That community is a Tiv/Jukun settlement and it is a border community where you can hardly draw a border line between Benue and Taraba States.

"From what we have gathered so far, two of the soldiers were killed some where taken alive and one of their patrol vehicles was also burnt.

"Though we had that some of the soldiers were still unaccounted for which means that the casualty figure might be higher when the true picture of the attack becomes clearer."

Confirming the report, the Chairman of Logo Local Government Area, Mr. Richard Nyajo, said the incident happened at around 7a.m. on Sunday.

He said herdsmen were responsible for the attack, adding that "I gave them a base at Gov in Mbagegh council ward of Logo local government area. So in the course of carrying out their peace keeping operation around the border area, they went into the bush and I don't know whether the herdsmen heard about them, they came from behind and entangled them and opened fire on them.

"They burnt one of their patrol vehicles, injured some of them, took some alive and killed one person but the second person was seriously injured and might not make it alive because he was in bad shape.

"Though one was said to be missing but by tomorrow, we will get a clearer picture of the situation including the actual number of deaths because when an attack scatter a group of people like it happened and some are missing you cannot just conclude on the casualty figure.

"But surely some were killed and some were abducted. Though many among those that were missing escaped alive, by tomorrow, we will get a clearer picture of the situation."

All efforts to confirm the incident from the police and military source were unsuccessful.