After killing Bello, they abducted another priest, Rev. Fr. Joe Keke. The Nation further added that the gunmen stormed the Catholic parish and started shooting into the air, injuring some people in the process.
Confirming the incident, the National Social Communications Director, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Padre Mike Umoh, 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 Fr. Joe Keke were still unknown.
