An unidentified cow dealer was killed on Wednesday by suspected Fulani herdsmen at the Adavi Cattle Market in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.
It was learnt that the money belonging to the cow dealer, said to be an Ebira, was stolen by his attackers.
In what appeared like a reprisal, those sympathetic to the cow dealer allegedly attacked Fulani herdsmen in the area and burnt the cattle market.
Police spokesman Shola Collins Adebayo, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the trader was ambushed by the gunmen and injured. Though the spokesman did not elaborate, it was learnt that the cattle dealer died from the injury he sustained in the attack.