Daily Sun gathered from sources that the parishioners and the priests had gone for early morning mass at about 5:30 a.m. when the herdsmen who stormed the village and the church wasted no time in spraying bullets on everyone in sight.
Our correspondent observed that since Governor Samuel Ortom travelled out of the country, the spate of killings in the state in the last few weeks seemed to be on the increase as hardly a day passes without news about herdsmen killing.
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The deceased priests were identified as Joseph Gor and Felix Tyolaha.
A witness told TheCable that a mammoth crowd thronged the Bishop Murray Medical Centre, Makurdi, to witness the depositing of the remains of those killed.
He added that many houses were burnt by the attackers.
“They (those killed) were brought in amid much wailing and sorrow from the crowd of mourners,” he said.
“The remains of the slain priests were an ugly sight to behold. Their killers butchered and mutilated their bodies hideously.
“Some of the locals who escaped the attack and fled to Makurdi were among the crowd at the hospital. There is war right here in Benue.”
Moses Yamu, the spokesman of Benue police command, could not be reached as of the time this report was filed as he neither responded to calls or text message.
The high rate of insecurity in Benue has been a source of concern to residents and the government.
All efforts to bring attacks under control have not yielded the desired result as there is hardly any week that killings are not recorded across the state.
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