Two elderly men have been tortured to death by a mob action following witchcraft allegations levelled against them in the Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State.
Witnesses said the deceased victims, Kwaghange Ugbu and Atuur Shaaja, were beaten by the mob and dragged with a rope on the ground around their vicinity in Gwer East until they died.
A witness who spoke on the condition of anonymity told our correspondent that the incident happened on September 28 after one David Terseer Nongobo, a native of Mbaaku Mbasombo in the same Gwer East slumped while working on the farm.
Nongobo who recently completed his secondary education according to the witness was reportedly rushed to the village hospital where the medics confirmed him dead.
The witness narrated further that when the news of the young school leaver broke in his community, some youths allegedly mobilised themselves to the home of the two elderly men; Ugbu and Shaaja who are relatives of the dead boy and accused them of killing him through witchcraft.