At least 16 security personnel are feared de@d and many more remain missing following an ambush by suspected armed herdsmen at Agu Centre, a rural settlement in Mbatyula/Mberev Council Ward of Katsina-Ala Local Government Area, Benue State.
Some of the security operatives who survived sustained injuries, while the trucks conveying them were burnt and motorcycles carted away by the attackers.
Among those k!lled were members of Operation Anyam Nyor, a state-established Joint Security Task Force made up of police officers and operatives of the Benue State Civil Protection Guards, BSCPG.
According to a local source, over 90 security personnel, led by Assistant Superintendent of Police, Danlami Usman, popularly known as “Dan Zuru,” were moving into the area to flush out armed herdsmen when they were ambushed.
The source said: “The armed herdsmen joined forces with known local militia gangs, numbering close to 1,000. Unknown to the security team, they laid an ambush between Tse Agbami and Agu Centre, on the Katsina-Ala/Ukum border.