By MN Reporter

Awendo sub-county residents have called on Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to increase police patrols after 38 cows stabbed and ten homes raided.

On Saturday dawn, Nyatambe villagers in Awendo sub-county were treated in a night of terror as unknown gang raided ten homes and hacked 38 cattle, leaving three dead and the rest with severe cuts.

“The gang was of unknown number and were armed with pangas and other crude weapons, after their heinous act they escaped into the dark and nearby sugarcane plantations,” Eliza Atieno, a resident said.

The motive of the attack is yet to be ascertained.

“It our my children who woke me up that our two fresian cows were mowing in the shed, I went and found them dead in a pool of blood,” Kennedy Ochieng Okumu who lost two dairy cattle from the attack said.

Phillip Oyugi, another resident said the gang might have laced their weapons with poisons as the cows died instantly.

Residents said they are living in imminent fear of fresh and more sinister attacks.

West Sakwa location chief Paul Opuch said.He said residents are now living in fear of an imminent attack with some accusing security officers from Awendo town of failing to enhance night patrols in the area.

Francis Indeke, a veterinary officer from Migori County who visited the scene directed that the dead animals be buried to avert unforeseen calamity as “we are yet to establish the actual cause of their deaths.”

“I have confirmed that 35 animals have a high degree of injuries while three have died. We have started treating the injured animal as law enforcers continue with their investigations. I’m urging the residents not to slaughter the dead animal as we are yet to ascertain whether the attackers inflicted poisonous substances on them,” he said.