Air Force strikes have reportedly killed 38 herders in the Rukubi community of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
According to Daily Trust, the herders, multiple sources said, were killed while returning from Makurdi, the Benue State capital, where they went to retrieve over 1,000 cows seized by the Benue Livestock Guards.
Daily Trust gathered that after the payment of fines amounting to N29m, some of the livestock was released to the herders by the guards and they were sadly trailed and killed while offloading the cattle shortly after they reached their destination in Nasarawa State.
The report said the killing of the herders on Tuesday night has raised tension in Benue and Nasarawa state.
Tension was high yesterday in the Hausa-dominated Wadata vicinity of the Makurdi metropolis in Benue State over the killings of. The northern elders have condemned the incident which they said was as a result of ethnic profiling.