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  • Gunmen killed 10 soldiers and an officer in the central Nigerian state of Benue, the army said on Friday. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack but Benue is part of Nigeria's middle belt region, where gangs have taken up arms after years of communal clashes between herders and farmers. "Nigerian Army troops operating in Benue State came under attack while on routine operational task," army spokesman Mohammed Yerima said in a statement, which gave no details of the time of the incident. The army said they were trying to track down the perpetrators. Benue's state governor Samuel Ortom said in a statement that communal clashes between the two communities had prompted a military operation in the area. It was in that context that the troops were attacked by unknown gunmen who also stole weapons and ammunitions. Community leaders condemned the killings while calling on the army to exercise restraint in its response. "We condemn the killing of the 11 soldiers by miscreants who have been terrorising our communities for years," said Chief Edward Ujege, former president of the ethnic Tiv group. He also appealed "the army to stop their reprisals on innocent communities who have been suffering as a result of the activities of the miscreants." A group of local residents known as the Shangev-Tiev Assembly issued a statement saying that at least 15 villages were razed by the military, a claim that AFP could not immediately verify. The governor, without addressing those allegations, urged "the military to avoid civilian casualties and protect law abiding people while efforts are on to recover their missing weapons." Deadly clashes between nomadic herders and farmers over land, grazing and water have plagued parts of central Nigeria for years. Nigeria's security forces are battling on several fronts -- a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency in the northeast, criminal kidnapping gangs in the northwest and a separatist militia in the southeast. lhd/joa/lhd/ri/pvh
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  • Gunmen kill 11 Nigerian troops in central region: army
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