Bandits kill 2, rustle 223 cows in Kaduna

Bandits have shot dead two herders and rustled 223 cows at Haying-Dam, in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State.

City & Crime reports that Haying –Dam shares a boundary with neighbouring Gidan-Makeri- Janjala communities in Kagarko LGA through the River Gurara in the area.

A resident of Gidan-Makeri, Kabiru Awwal, said the incident happened on Saturday, around 6 pm when the bandits in their large numbers wielding AK-47 rifles attacked three herders camp in the area.

He said the bandits first attacked the camp of one Alhaji Ibrahim Yabari, in which they rustled 123 cows, before they proceeded to the next camp and took away 100 cows.

“It was when the two among the herders were trying to resist the bandits from rustling the cows that one of the bandits opened fire and killed the two,” he said.

He said troops who were stationed at neighboring Janjala village, later arrived in the community and were still on the trail of the bandits.

The spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP Mansur Hassan, did not pick calls or reply to text messages sent to him to confirm the incident as at the time of filing the report.