Just last Sunday, the herdsmen struck in Tse Wankyor in the same Tsaav Ward and killed 10 and harmed a few others.
Yesterday's episode brings the loss of life from the two attacks to 15.
A source told The AUTHORITY that the furnished herders numbering more than 50 attacked the group through the neighbouring Kente settlement in Taraba State at 11pm on Monday and unleashed fear on the general population with their advanced weapons.
He guaranteed that six motorcycles were trucked away by the rampaging herders.
The District Head of Tsaav, His Royal Highness (HRH) Joseph Ivuen, told The AUTHORITY that the assault was unwarranted in light of the fact that they have never had issues with the Fulani cows rearers.
The ruler said that the group had been deserted inspired by a paranoid fear of further assaults and approached the Federal Government to give an enduring solution to the proceeded with intrusion of Benue towns by the herders.
The Chairman of Ukum Local Government Area, Hon. Simon Kachina, who affirmed the assaults, said that they were odd in light of the fact that the influenced communities never had issues with the herders and charged the powers to heighten endeavors towards consummation such savage acts.
The board manager who gave the names of casualties whose bodies had been recouped as Keryum Mku, Terkura Ajo and Terhemba Gwa, included that the quest for others had proceeded.
Kachina said: "It is most unfortunate and the most worrisome part of these assaults lies in the way that they are normally completed amid trimming season and for a nearby government whose financial pillar is cultivating, the kept sacking of our kin won't foreshadow well for our monetary survival.
I am engaging particularly to the Federal Government to put in endeavors that will reduce the primitive demonstrations of these headsmen."
The part representing Ukum, Logo and Katsina/Ala Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Emmanuel Udende, said that an open hearing into the continued assaults on Benue communities by the herders had begun at the Lower House.
Through his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Jerry Iorngaem, who was at the attacked group, the administrator asked his constituents not to fall back on self improvement.
The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, confirmed the assaults.
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