A politician and businessman simply identified as Alhaji Lado has been killed in Katsina State with his widow and daughter abducted by his killers.
The incident as reported happened in Mairuwa village, Faskari local government area of the State on Saturday night.
The account said that bandits launched the attack inside the mosque while some Muslims were observing taraweeh prayer, the voluntary Ramadan prayer, killing Alhaji Lado and one other person.
It added that the grounds for the political businessman’s killing was that he refused to yield to the bandits’ order bordering on submitting himself to abduction and paid with his life.
“They opened fire on him when they attempted to kidnap him but he refused to follow them,” the publication quoted an unnamed source as saying.