Two killed, seven arrested after reprisal attack in Dass violent clash

Two radical person been killed successful abstracted stabbing incidents pursuing a convulsive clash betwixt youths successful Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

The Bauchi Police Command said the incidental occurred connected Friday, September 4, 2026, aft a 29-year-old tricycle rider, Abdulrahman Nuru, was attacked successful the Tudun Wus country of Dass.

The bid said Nuru, who was from the Bundot area, was intercepted and allegedly attacked with cutlasses by a radical led by Ibrahim El-Safwan, popularly known arsenic Jabala’i, of Bayan Fada.

According to a connection issued by the spokesperson of the command, SP Nafiu Habib, Nuru was rushed to the General Hospital, Dass, aft sustaining aggregate injuries but was pronounced dormant by a aesculapian doctor.

The sidesplitting reportedly sparked hostility arsenic youths from Bundot mobilised and moved to Bayan Fada successful what the constabulary described arsenic a reprisal attack.

The bid said the 2 groups aboriginal engaged successful a convulsive confrontation astatine an unfastened abstraction adjacent the Dass Central Motor Park, during which 38-year-old Mukhtar Jibrin of Bayan Fada was stabbed.

Jibrin was taken to the General Hospital, Dass, and aboriginal referred to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Following the incident, constabulary operatives attached to the Dass...