No fewer than 32 villagers in Eggon, Nasarawa State were on Sunday reportedly killed by suspected Fulani insurgents wielding AK-47 guns.
The dastardly act occurred at Eggon village of Arikya-Soni at about 3pm.
The village is in Lafia East Development Area of Nasarawa State.
The AK 47 wielding suspected Fulani insurgents, it was gathered, ambushed and killed their victims while returning home from their farms.
The assailants were also said to have made away with no fewer than nine motorcycles belonging to the victims.
Eyewitness account has it that those killed were mainly from Umme, Arugbadu and Bakyano villages in Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area.
Their corpses, it was learnt, were later recovered, with a mass burial given to them after a brief funeral service.
Family members and sympathisers, it was gathered, could not hold back on sighting the corpses.
One of the residents who narrowly escaped being killed, Saratu Mustapha, sustained serious gunshots from the rampaging insurgents, was rushed to Ashangbo clinic at Arugbadu treatment.
Mustapha explained that she was returning from the farm along with her husband and her sister on a motorcycle when the Fulani gunmen attacked them on the way.
She explained that her husband as well as her sister were killed in the course of the attack, stressing that she had to run to the bush to hide.
Another lucky survivor, Habibu Mohammed, in his account, told journalists in Rugbadu village that he was returning from the farm along with his parents when the Fulani gunmen opened fire on them.
Mohammed explained that he lost his parents and his motorcycle in the attack.
The member representing Nasarawa Eggon East Constituency in the state House of Assembly, Hon. Mohammed Muluku, who conducted journalists round the scene of the killing, expressed shock over the attack.
Mukulu passionately appealed to the Federal Government to establish a permanent military base in the area to prevent further attacks on his constituents.
The lawmaker alleged that despite his personal complaint to the Governor, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, over the persistent attacks on his constituents by suspected Fulani insurgents, he (the governor) has turned deaf ears to his complaints.
He nonetheless appealed to his constituents not to take the laws into their hands.
The Eagle Online
