No fewer than 46 persons, including the thirty-three-year-old son of Otukpo Local Government Area Chairman Bako Eje, have been killed by suspected herdsmen who invaded Umogidi village of Entekpa-Adoka district in Otukpo Local Government Council in Benue State.

The killing comes barely 24 hours after the same village, an Idoma-speaking community suffered an attack by suspected herdsmen with three persons killed.

An eyewitness from the affected village Joseph Adakole says the people of the community were burying the three persons earlier killed when the attackers suddenly came back with more firepower to massacre scores of mourners.