A Catholic priest, Reverend Father Alphonsus Bello, has been reportedly killed while another priest, Reverend Father Joe Keke, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at Saint Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church Malunfashi, Katsina state.
It was learnt that the gunmen, on Thursday night, stormed the Catholic parish and started shooting into the air, leaving some people injured in the process.
The National Social Communications Director, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Padre Mike Umoh, who confirmed the incident, said the suspected bandits dumped the lifeless body of Father Alphonsus Bello in the farmland behind the Catechetical Training School, Malunfashi while the whereabouts of Father Joe Keke was still unknown.
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