50 killed as soldiers battle Fulani insurgent in Nasarawa

SOLDIERS KILLED OVERS 50 FULANI INSURGENCE IN A GUN BATTLE IN NASARAWA By Abel Daniel LAFIA – Barely 24 hours after the military deployed to contain the recent attacks that has claimed over 200 lives and displaced thousands of the Tiv people of Nasarawa and Benue states, success was Thursday recorded as troops killed over 50 Fulani insurgents in Keana local government area of Nasarawa state in a gun duel. In lafia, Fulani insurgents numbering 10 were brought to the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, DASH, Lafia the state capital by a police pickup van and deposited at the mortuary while about 20 others were deposited at the general hospital Keana as well as several others still in the bush. *Soldiers on patrol Source told our reporter in Lafia that the military launched an offensive on the terrorist while acting on a tipoff about their hideouts in Maraba Giza and Tse-Azer where they have taken over the ancestral home of the Tivs in the area. Vanguard gathered that the Keana general hospital informed that the mortuary could no longer contain the number of dead bodies hence the conveyance of the remaining ones to Lafia. It was further gathered that sophisticated weapons were recovered by the military from the insurgents who were taken unaware during the attack while taken cover as re-strategized to continue their onslaught. Residence of Keana local government area narrated that the military were seen taken over the town with about four armored tankers in other to ensure that the insurgents had no escape routes.