An attack by terrorists is ongoing at Gbeji town in Ukum Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State.
Although details of the attack are still sketchy, POLITICS NIGERIA learned that many residents have been killed and several others injured by the killer herdsmen who are consistently constructed as terrorists.
Clashes in Nigeria between farmers and semi-nomadic herders have killed thousands of people in the last few years.
Many others have been rendered homeless.
The violence is often painted as ethnoreligious: chiefly Muslim Fulani herders clashing with mainly Christian farmers. But many analysts and politicians say climate change and expanding agriculture are creating competition for land that is pushing the farmers and herders into conflict, regardless of faith or ethnicity.
Efforts by this newspaper to reach the Benue State Command spokesperson, Catherine Anene, for comment, were unsuccessful.
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