Suspected motorcycle snatchers have stabbed a farmer, Markus Baba, to death and escaped with his motorcycle near Farakuti village in Kwali Area Council of the FCT.
A resident, Samuel Barnabas, said the incident happened on Saturday around 5pm when the farmer was working on his farm along the Leda-Farakuti road.
He said, “The man finished work on his farm and was going to where he parked his motorcycle when hoodlums appeared from the bush and attacked him with a knife, inflicted heavy injuries on him and escaped with his motorcycle.”
Barnabas said the farmer was rescued to the hospital but died on Sunday as a result of the injuries he sustained during the attack.
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The spokeswoman of the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh, was yet to comment on the incident.
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