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Unknown gunmen suspected to be of Benue state origin have shot dead a Fulani herdsman, Alhaji Umar Garba in Gakem community of Bekwarra local government area.

The late Garba is said to have been resident in Gakem for over 50 years and was tending to his herd of cattle when two people on a motorcycle approached him and shot him dead.

Gakem, a border community between Cross River and Benue states is over 280 kilometres north of Calabar, the Cross River State capital.