By our reporter| Alphonsus Bello, a Catholic priest, abducted alongside another priest, Joe Keke on Thursday night when the bandits invaded St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Malunfashi area of Katsina state, has been killed.
Bello’s corpse was found on Friday morning while the whereabouts of Keke remains unknown.
Gambo Isah, the state police spokesman who confirmed the incident, said the police have arrested two persons for complicity in the abduction.
According to Isah, Bello was not shot as reported but may have died as a result of asphyxiation.
“Actually yesterday night these bandits in their numbers armed with AK47 rifles got their way into the Catholic Church Mission in Malunfashi and abducted the two priests — a 40-year-old and another 70-year-old retired reverend,” he said.
“The man was not shot. We trailed the bandits and along the road, we discovered the corpse of this Alphonsus.
“We evacuated it to the general hospital and the doctors examined the body, there was no gunshot. We are thinking that maybe he died as a result of asphyxiation or other circumstances.
“We have arrested two persons for complicity in the abduction because they were the people that took the bandits to the residence of these reverend fathers.
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