Suspected 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.
During the attack, which occurred on Sunday night, an unspecified number of wedding guests were said to have also been abducted.
A security source said on Monday that residents reported heavy gunfire and widespread panic upon the arrival of the bandits in the community on Sunday night.
“As of this morning, families are still trying to confirm how many people were abducted,” the source said.
When contacted for comment, the Katsina State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, was not available as text messages and phone calls put through to him were not responded to as of the time of filing this report.
The attack comes at a time 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.