The police has arrested 53 suspects inconnection to the killings in Benue and Plateau States, Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has said.
Dozens of lives were said to have been lost and several others injured or displaced.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, Egbetokun described the June 13 massacre in Yelewata community in Benue State as a “coordinated attack of terror.”
Egbetokun said 26 were arrested for the attack in Yelewata, 22 suspects in connection with the Plateau attacks and another five in Benue for a more recent attack.
He stated that 47 persons were killed and 27 were injured in the Yelewata attack, adding that two general-purpose machine guns and eight AK-47 rifles used in the attack were recovered.
