BREAKING: Gunmen Storm Benue, Kill Seven

• No fewer than seven persons have been confirmed dead and several others injured by gunmen in an attack at Tor-Togan town.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the chairman of the Katsina-Ala local government area, Hon. Alfled Atera confirmed the incident.

Tor Tongo is a farming community on Katsina Ala -Takum federal highway in Benue north east senatorial zone.

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Atera told Newsmen that those killed were mostly members of Community Volunteer Guards (CVG).

He said five other persons sustained serious injuries among them, a priest, who was hit while the gunmen shot sporadically into the air before they escaped.

The gunmen, he alleged, were L gang members of a militia leader called Azonto.

Azonto, was arrested last month in Taraba state and has since been in custody.

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