Two persons on a motor bike on Monday stabbed to death
a traffic police officer, a.k.a. yellow fever on duty in the Sabon Gari area of
the state.
The suspects, now at large, stabbed the warden after he stopped the
flow of traffic on their own side of the road, it was gathered.
The victim, a Traffic Warden, was taken unawares by
his assailants, who rode on a motorcycle and stabbed him twice with a sharp
object while he was directing traffic between 6 and 630pm.
The attackers are believed to be fans of an amateur
football team in the state. It was equally gathered that their action may have
been triggered by anger over the outcome of a match between the club they
support and a visiting team from Niger
State, which ended in a
draw.
The football march was played between the Bida Lions
of Niger State
and One Touch of Kano
State,
The attack was unprovoked as the victim was only
performing his constitutional duties as a traffic policeman. It was a female
police officer, who arrived at the scene, while the victim was still lying in a
pool of his blood that alerted the police, who conveyed him to hospital.
The traffic warden died while receiving treatment at
the Mallam Aminu Kano
Teaching Hospital.
Meanwhile, in their traditional way, the police have
already arrested 65 persons some of which are innocent in connection with the
crime
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