No fewer than nine Tiv farmers of Gidan Sule community in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State have reportedly been killed by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen.
Investigations reveal that the sad incident occured on Saturday night when the gunmen who were armed with AK-47 rifles stormed the community shooting sporadically into the air, and killing any person in sight.
At the end of the sporadic gunshots, nine persons were reportedly killed while others who escaped with bullet wounds including children, women and aged parents are presently missing.
Confirming the incident to correspondents in Lafia today, the President of Tiv Development Association in the state, Peter Ahemba, narrated that five corpses were first recovered on Sunday morning and later that day, four other corpses were recovered from a bush in the community.
