Boy, 9, has his hands rotten and chopped off after teacher ties them up (Graphic Images)

A 9-year-old boys’ hands has been amputated in Gombe following his teacher’s cruelty.

Zubairu, an ‘almajiri’ whose hands rotten after his teacher Malam Shuaibu tied them up with a rope had his lower arm cut off when it could not be salvaged

Both hands were chopped off when a hospital found that they could no more be useful. The incident happened at Kagarawol, Gombe State.

A source who spoke to TPCN said that the teacher has been arrested and will be charged to court for the dastardly act against a minor.

The source said that such cruelty against the almajiri children by their Islamic teachers has become a regular occurrence of late, saying that most of the children are sexually abused by their teachers too.

He maintained that individual states in the north should work hard to stop the almajiri system as it leaves children vulnerable to those who would abuse them.