Despite the fact that there has been no official report of the quantity of losses included, occupants of the zone say that in regards to 15 individuals may have been executed.
Security agents have following been sent to the zone.
Onlooker records say that in regards to 300 individuals suspected to be herders completed the assault.
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The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, responsible for Vunokilang Police Station in Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State was among the 30 individuals killed in an assault by suspected Fulani herders on Sunday morning .
Reports from the zone uncovered that the suspected herders struck four towns: Demsare, Wunamokoh, Dikajam and Taboungo in what is accepted to be a retaliation mission over a current quarrel with ranchers in the zone.
A few houses and other property in the towns were likewise smoldered in the assault.
The DPO, Okozie Okereofor, a Chief Superintendent of Police, who was conveyed to the state around two months prior, was said to have been trapped when he was driving cops to the debated zone. He was slaughtered in the possible shootout with his attackers.
The cadaver of the killed cop and the others murdered is as of now kept at the funeral home of the Federal Medical Center, Yola.
The Police in Adamawa have affirmed the executing of Mr. Okereofor.
"The DPO and his group were assaulted while on authority obligation in the influenced towns where he was executed by suspected Fulani herders," the representative of the Adamawa State Police Command, Othman Abubakar, said.
"Report available to me showed that the assailants plundered foodstuff and domesticated animals of the villagers before setting the towns on fire.
"The suspected Fulani herders struck four towns in Girei neighborhood Government zone on Sunday morning around 5:30 a.m. murdering scores including the late DPO."
At the point when a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent and different columnists went to the Federal Medical Center on Sunday, a portion of the survivors of the assault were seen accepting treatment.
On the other hand, an attendant on obligation said the administration of the doctor's facility issued an order that no writer ought to be permitted into the wards.
Remarking on the assault, the Acting Brigade Commander of the 23 Armored Bridgade, Yola, Aba Poopola, affirmed that the Fulani herders had issues with the influenced ranges.
He said "everything is under control" as he has conveyed his officers to the region to keep up peace.
The assault is not quite the same as the Boko Haram terrorist assaults in Adamawa and other north-eastern states that have brought about the passing of around 25,000 individuals since it started in 2010.
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