Unidentified gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly attacked a wedding convoy at Unguwar Nagunda Community in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing at least two people.
Several others, including the bride, were injured in the attack which occurred on Sunday night.
An unspecified number of wedding guests were said to have been kidnapped in the incident.
At the time of filing this report, efforts to reach the Katsina State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, were not successful as he is yet to pick the calls put across to him.
The attack is said to have come when the state government was making plans to release 70 detained suspected bandits as part of measures to consolidate what it described as the existing peace deal between banditry-affected communities and repentant bandits in the state.
The government said the deal had led to the release of at least 1,000 persons held captive by the suspected bandits in different attacks, maintaining that such tactics are adopted in war situations globally.
