Nsukka- Anxiety and confusion has enveloped Abbi Community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State, following the invasion of the area by Fulani herdsmen who unleashed mayhem on the people, killing a brother and sister apart from razing down about seven houses and several motorcycles.
Altogether, 19 persons were declared missing in the community even as several others were also wounded with machetes by the invaders.
It was gathered that the Fulani herdsmen numbering over 30 emerged from the bush, and began to attack the people in the community last Thursday, killing their victims and maiming others with machetes before fleeing into the bush unharmed.
The two relations who were murdered were recognized as Fidelis Okeja, 45, and his sister Mercy, 50. Fidelis and Mercy were sitting outside their compound around 6.30pm examining when all of a sudden, around 30 conceal Fulani herders rose up out of no place and them in a flash.
They later felt free to assaulted different individuals from the group with cleavers, consumed a few houses previously withdrawing into the hedge.
Examinations by Vanguard, uncovered that sporadic shooting by the speculated Fulani herders sent shudders into the occupants of different parts of the group who hastened for security in the midst of disarray.
A solid source in the group said that the general population were surprised by Fulani herders, including that the police and individuals from the neighborhood vigilante assemble were yet to react to cries of the general population before the intruders got away into the shrub.
''The most troubling part of the Fulani attack of the group was that around 19 individuals are as yet absent as no one can give record of them. Those missing were most recently seen on the game changing day. The people group framed pursuit parties in gatherings, brushing hedges inside and outside the group throughout recent days, yet no indication of accomplishment has been recorded,'' he noted.
''We have held up formal grievance at the two Adani police headquarters and Police Area Command Nsukka, yet no captures have been made over the issue.
The Fulani herders were equipped with every kind of weaponry with hazardous weapons when they attacked us.
"Two individuals executed while 19 missing, a few others brutalized with profound cleaver chops now lying basic down at various doctor's facilities.
"The bodies of the perished Fidelis and Mercy have been stored at Bishop Sanahan Hospital, Nsukka while the look for the missing 19 individuals proceeds with," he said.
A senior officer at the Police Area Command, Nsukka who talked on the state of namelessness affirmed the story portraying the assault on Abbi people group as pitiful and miserable as two organic relations were murdered and a few others injured," among others
He, be that as it may, said that full scale examinations has started to unwind the conditions encompassing the brutal assault on the group.
The Officer, be that as it may, said that the police were yet to get the report of missing people in the group on the record of the occurrence, however spoke to the group not to take laws into their hands by taking part in backlash assault.
In the interim, a group of hostile to revolt policemen has been drafted to the group to expand security in the region and past.
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