The Taraba State Police Command said it has recovered 142 stolen cattle and 26 sheep from suspected rustlers in Serti, Gashaka local government area of the state.
The state commissioner of police, Mr Yakubu Babas, disclosed this yesterday in Jalingo, while briefing newsmen.
Babas stressed that the rustlers were tracked by the police through an intelligent report by an informant from the area that a number of people were seen with cows and sheep reasonably suspected to be rustled.
“On receipt of the information, a team of policemen along with vigilantes were drafted to the area, on sighting the police, the rustlers engaged them in a shoot out but due to superior fire power of my men they took to their heels abandoning 142 herds of cattle and 26 sheep,” he said.
He noted that three people had already come and identified some of the cows to be their own.
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