Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Sunday killed nine people at Rugar Kusa village in Musawa local government area of Katsina State.
The spokesman for the state police command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, said in a statement on Monday that 16 other persons were seriously injured when the assailants attacked Muslim faithful celebrating the Maulud in the community.
He said: “On November 5, at about 10:30 p.m., suspected armed bandits in their numbers, wielding dangerous weapons such as AK-47 rifles and shooting sporadically, attacked the Maulud procession.
