 Eight persons have been killed by gunmen in Yaluwata town, Guma local government area of Benua state. The attack was set to have occurred on Monday around 7.30 p.m. Yaluwata is a border community between Nassarawa and Benua state on the busy Makurdi Lafya Federal High Road. The inhabitants are predominantly tea farmers. Seeing a special assistant to Governor Samuel Autumn on projects monitoring, Faga Uto, who is from the area said the housewife who was cooking and her four children were killed during the attack.