Tears as victims of Enugu herdsmen attack are buried

Tears flowed freely on Friday as nine victims of Fulani herdsmen attack on Ukpabi Nimbo, an agrarian community in the Uzo-Uwani area of Enugu State, were buried.

Several members of the community died during the attack by Fulani herdsmen on April 25. Our correspondent learnt that some other victims of the attack, particularly those whose bodies were already decomposing by the time they were discovered in the bush many days after the incident, were buried earlier.

Also, some other corpses have yet to be buried.

A former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi; the Senator representing Enugu North, Chuka Utazi; a former minister, Nnia Nwodo, and members of the state Executive Council and House of Assembly attended the burial service orgainsed for the deceased.The victims were not given a mass burial. Bereaved families took the bodies of their deceased to their individual compounds for burial.