News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that the police in Pankshin, Plateau state, on Wednesday arrested two suspects in connection with an alleged case of homicide in Gung Village.

The suspects, a man in his thirties and his brother, who is a hunter were arrested after a fellow was shot fatally. Investigations by ViewPointNigeria revealed that the suspects allegedly shot the man with a Dane gun in his gut and that he later died at the Pankshin General Hospital on Tuesday evening.

Whilst some residents of the community accused the hunter of the offence, others alleged that it was his goat that mistakenly pulled the trigger with its horns. They said, “It was in an attempt to catch the goat and get the gun off its horns that it kept running around until it eventually triggered-off the gun which caused a stray bullet to hit the deceased,” a witness said.

Sunday Okpo, the divisional police officer for Pankshin, confirmed the incident, but confirmed that there was no how a stray bullet could have killed the man. Okpo told ViewPointNigeria’s correspondent, that investigations had already begun into the incident. “We have arrested two persons in connection with the ugly incident, including the hunter and investigations into the remote cause of the killing has begun in earnest,” he said. “This is a clear case of culpable homicide; I heard people claiming that it was a goat that caused the death of the young man; it sounds so funny isn’t it?” Okpo said as long as the police were concerned, the incident was a clear case of culpable homicide, which they were investigating to get to its root. “As soon as we are through with our investigations, we shall transfer the case to the state CID for more investigation and prosecution,” Okpo said. The DPO said he would hold a town hall meeting with hunters in the council.

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Pankshin: Goat allegedly pulled trigger that killed man