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Herders kill farmer, injure 2 in FCT council

Suspected herders have hacked a farmer, Samson Gimba, to death and injured two others in Riwaza community in Kwali Area Council of the FCT.

A resident, James Shilani, said the incident happened on Tuesday, around 2pm when some herders moved their cows into a farm.

He said the farmers questioned the herders for allowing their animals to graze inside the cassava farm which resulted into an altercation.

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He said that in the process, one of the sons of the farmer hit one of the cows with a cutlass and that one of the herders also removed a cutlass and stabbed the farmer.

The spokeswoman of the FCT Police Command, SP Adeh Josephine, could not be reached for comment on the incident.

 

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