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LAGOS, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 50 people lost their lives and many others injured after Fulani herdsmen attacked a Tiv community in central north Nigeria's Benue State, the governor said Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters in Makurdi, the state capital, Governor Samuel Ortom said the people were slaughtered, children killed, and several had their hands chopped off, during Tuesday's attack.
Ortom said nine livestock guards were killed and their Hilux patrol van razed in the attack.
The governor blamed the federal government for not protecting the people.
He said the federal government was alerted on the threat of the herdsmen who had vowed to resist the anti- grazing bill enacted by the state government.
