Rustled

During the fierce battle, troops superior fire power forced bandits to abandon the children and the rustled cattle thereby forcing the bandits to flee in disarray into the forest.

Enenche said the troops received a distress call at about 11:30 pm. on Saturday from locals at Mahuta village that suspected bandits were moving with unconfirmed numbers of Islamiya children mostly girls and rustled cattle.

In a separate feedback, troops and police this morning foiled another attempt by bandits to cross the Kaduna-Abuja highway with rustled cattle, this time around Greenfield University.

Relatedly, troops deployed at Safana, responding to a distress call foiled an armed bandits attack and recovered several rustled cattle at Danyegeya village in Safana Local Government Area.

Shemtov rustled up food that otherwise would have gone to waste, including from their own shelves.

The statement read: “Troops received a distress call about 11:30 pm on December 19 from locals at Mahuta village, that suspected bandits were moving with some Islamiya pupils, mostly girls, and rustled cattle.

A source, who pleaded anonymity, said by the time the dust settled, seven vigilantes and one policeman were confirmed dead in the crossfire, even as the gunmen escaped with the rustled cows.

However instead of the 20 persons reported the police disclosed that 21 persons were actually killed, 10 houses destroyed and 50 cows rustled.

Shehu said that the attackers invaded Zakuna in the early hour of June 1 and rustled cows belonging to villagers.

The cattle is suspected to have been rustled and moved into Foron, also in Barkin Ladi.

The chapel was freezing cold, as all the stained glass had been safely stored and replaced with blackout material and gray tar paper, which must have added its own peculiar percussion to the service as it rustled in the wind.

The police chief also said the command recovered 115 rustled cows belonging to Mr Ibrahim Sulaiman of Sabo Gida-Karnar Community in Jos LGA.

The presidential spokesman indicated in the statement that information available to the Presidency showed that about 100 cattle had been rustled by a community in Plateau State, and some herdsmen were killed in the process.

The statement also reads that OPSH has deployed troops to Barkin-Ladi and Bassa Local Government Areas to trail the dealers of the rustled cattle and other crimes.

We also saw the President’s decisive action when Fulani cattle were allegedly rustled in Kaduna, Nasarawa and Zamfara state.

Commander Carrion stated that the contras consisted of insignificant bands of poorly armed and poorly organized members of Somoza's National Guard, who carried out uncoordinated border raids and rustled cattle (presumably for food).

Mallory rustled up oxygen equipment for a last-ditch effort.