Two herders were reportedly shot dead in the evening of Saturday 2nd March, 2024 and nothing less than 223 cows were rustled by bandits at Haying-Dam, in Kachia local government area of Kaduna State.
In their large numbers, the bandits reported to have attacked three herders’ camps in the area with AK-47 rifles.
The newskingdom gathered that the incident occurred around 6pm on Saturday when the bandits first attacked one Alhaji Ibrahim Yabari’s camp and rustled 123 cows, before they thereafter extended their attacked to another camp and took away 100 cows.
The source revealed that, “one of the bandits opened fire and killed two herders when they were trying to resist them from rustling the cows.”
It was also gathered that troops who were stationed at neighboring Janjala village, later came to the community for rescue and were still on the trail of the bandits.
When contacted the spokesman for the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP Mansur Hassan on phone, he did respond to calls put put to his mobile phone.
