No fewer than three farmers have been reportedly killed by suspected herdsmen at Toru Angiama community in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State.
It was learnt that many farmers were also abducted as the gunmen invaded the community.
The hoodlums were said to have killed one Mr Dennis, his son and one other person who were working on their farm, while trying to fend off the gun-toting herders and their cattle from grazing and destroying crops on their farms.
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A former president of the Ijaw Youth Council, Dr Chris Ekiyor, who hails from Patani Local Government Area, appealed for calm among members of the community advising them not to take laws into their own hands.
He also called on the government and security agencies to fish out the killers, while he urged the state government to address the issue of insecurity in the area so as to forestall any further crisis.
It was also gathered that the indigenes of the LGA, particularly parents, have continually expressed concern over the level of security risk on farmers, posed by the influx of herders into the community.