NFSS deploys personnel after suspected rabid dogs bite 18 in Kano

The Nigerian Forest Security Service (NFSS) has deployed unit to Garko Local Government Area of Kano State pursuing attacks by suspected rabid dogs that near 18 residents injured.

The command’s spokesman, Usman Abdullahi-Umar, said successful a connection that the State Commander of the NFSS, Abdullahi Al’ameen, received a distress study astatine astir 2 p.m. that a canine suspected to beryllium infected with rabies had attacked residents successful Garko town.

According to him, “The canine had bitten 11 radical successful Garko earlier moving into neighbouring communities, including Raba, Kadage, Gurjiya and Dausai, wherever it attacked and injured 7 further residents.”

The connection added that the canine attacked and injured 7 much radical successful the affected communities, describing the concern arsenic alarming.

Al’ameen said the bid had besides received different study indicating that 2 different dogs were suspected to person been infected with rabies, stressing the request for urgent enactment to incorporate the situation.

He said unit of the NFSS Garko Division, led by the Divisional Forest Officer, Auwalu Muhammad, had been deployed to the affected communities to way and incorporate the suspected rabid dogs.

Al’ameen urged residents of Garko and neighbouring communities to stay vigilant and promptly report...