Six state security personnel, including the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards and Livestock Guards, were ambushed and killed while on duty to provide security for a family attending a burial.

Some gunmen suspected to be terrorists have reportedly killed 26 persons in renewed attacks on three communities in the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State.

It was gathered that the attacks happened between Saturday and Monday, targeting Mbakunwande, Jaora communities, and the Naka-Adoka Road.

Six state security personnel, including the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards and Livestock Guards, were ambushed and killed while on duty to provide security for a family attending a burial.

The chairman of Gwer West LGA, Henry Agba, confirmed the incident to journalists on Tuesday.

He said, The attack started on Saturday. Six security operatives of the state, comprising Benue Security Community Volunteer Guards and Livestock Guards, were killed.

They (operatives) escorted the family of a deceased person to a village called Mbakunwande, where they had gone to bury the loved one, and they ambushed them and killed them.

On Saturday, at about 11 pm, they attacked a community in Jaroa, and 14 people were killed. Also on Monday, they attacked a community along Naka-Adoka Road where the villagers have so far recovered six dead bodies, and many people were injured and receiving treatment at some clinics within the LGA.

Agba further stated that the Benue State Police and Joseph Har, the state security adviser, had been notified of the incidents. 

He added that Har went to one of the attack sites on Monday.

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