Herdsmen nabbed as stray cow kills three-month-old baby | AgegePulse Magazine

 

By Ayodele Ifasakin 

A stray cow has killed a three-month-old baby in the Ebrumede community, Effurun area of the Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, throwing the community into pandemonium.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred on Monday while the cow was being escorted to a buyer by two herdsmen.

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Sources said the cow suddenly strayed off the DSC Expressway by the Ebrumede Magistrates’ Court, near the DSC roundabout, and attacked a woman from the rear.

The baby, who was strapped to its mother’s back, was said to have been fatally hit by the cow’s horns and died on the spot before medical assistance could be provided.

Eyewitnesses said the cow’s horns hit the baby in the head and broke the skull.

The animal was also said to have injured an elderly man after straying into the nearby court premises, where lawyers and their clients fled for safety.

When contacted, the acting Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed the incident and said the herdsmen escorting the cow had been arrested by the personnel of the Ebrumede Police Station. "

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Muslim cleric, nurse nabbed over missing placenta

A new born baby allegedly sold to a Muslim cleric in Ilorin for ritual purposes by a Nurse attendant in a private hospital in Ilorin.


At the press time,Vanguard reliably gathered that the Muslim cleric and the nurse attendant in one of the private hospitals in Ilorin, currently being interrogated by the police, were yet to disclose the where about of the placenta.

 Vanguard further gathered that, the placenta was sold by the nurse attendant to the cleric at the cost of N20,000 for money ritual. The duo according to Vanguard findings were arrested at their different locations in Ilorin following the report to the police command by the medical officer in charge of the private hospital.

Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred at a private medical hospital located at Oke-Erin area of Ilorin when the father of the new born baby,one Jimoh Abdulfatah demanded for the placenta of his new born baby from the hospital after delivery and was not given.