No fewer than seven persons have been confirmed killed by gunmen in an attack at Tor-Togan town on Thursday night.
Several others were injured in the attack, which occurred around 5:30pm.
The chairman of Katsina Ala local government area Hon Alfled Atera confirmed the incident.
Tor Tongo is a farming community on Katsina Ala -Takum federal highway in Benue north east senatorial zone .
Atera told reporters that those killed were mostly members of Community Volunteer Guards (CVG).
He said five other persons sustained serious injuries among them, a priest, who was hit while the gunmen shot sporadically into the air before they escaped.
The gunmen, he alleged, were gang members of a militia leader called Azonto.