Two butchers who went to purchase some cows at a village near Salaga in the Northern Region have allegedly been murdered by some Fulani herdsmen in the area.
The bodies of the butchers, Alhassan Gado, 27, and Sulemana Muntaka, 21, have been deposited at the Salaga Hospital awaiting autopsy as the police continue investigations to apprehend the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
At the moment the security situation in the Salaga area remains calm.
Meanwhile, butchers at Salaga have threatened to avenge the death of their colleagues if immediate measures are not taken to arrest and punish the Fulanis alleged to have committed the murder.
Narrating the incident to the media in Tamale yesterday, the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, said his outfit was informed about the murder by the Assembly member for the Dagomba Electoral Area in Salaga, Mr Fuseini Issifu.
According to him, the incident occurred last Tuesday when the bodies were found in the bush by a search party after the deceased had failed to return home on the previous day from Kabache in the Salaga District, where they had gone to buy some cows.
The officer indicated that upon careful examination of their bodies, it was found out that they had been shot with locally manufactured guns. Three cartridges were also found at the crime scene.
Mr Tetteh has meanwhile cautioned the butchers against taking the law into their own hands.
“I can assure them that we are investigating the matter to bring the perpetrators to book. Therefore, anybody who violates the law will be prosecuted,” he stressed.
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