An overnight attack by some gunmen on a police post in central Benue State has left at least four police officers who were on duty, dead.
Witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES the yet-to-be-identified gunmen stormed the police divisional headquarters in Igumale, the headquarters of Ado Local Government Area, shortly after midnight on October 2, killing all the four officers on duty.
The attackers also carted away the guns and ammunition of the officers.
Ajibo Ochulayi, a community leader in the agrarian town, told the publication that while two officers died on the spot, two others later passed on in a medical centre in Makurdi, the state capital.
s“It is sad that the gunmen were able to overpower the policemen and killed all the four of them with little resistance,” Mr. Ochulayi said.
He said the state’s police commissioner, Bashir Makama, visited the scene on Sunday afternoon with a few mobile police officers to assess the aftermath.
Police have only launched a manhunt for the assailants, and no one has been identified on the motive of the attack. The publication also added that their efforts to reach the police spokespersons for the latest on the attack were unsuccessful.