Armed Bandits said to numbering about 60 attacked the palace of the Emir of Kagara, Alhaji Ahmad Gamu Kagara, in Rafi Local government area of Niger state.
The bandits were said to have raided the town on 20 motorcycles with three of them on each of the bikes.
According to reports, the gunmen struck during the Maghrib prayers.
Although details of the attack was not clear as at the time of filing this report, soldiers stationed in the town were said to have engaged the bandits in gun battle,.
It was however gathered that the Emir was not in the palace when the bandits struck.
A source close to the Emir palace told our correspondent that the Royal father had early in the morning of Tuesday traveled to Abuja for an official engagements.
The bandits were said to had attacked and sacked people from the market before making their way to the palace.
Kagara has remained the epic enter of bandits attack in the last three four years with a number of people killed, others kidnapped and ransom worth millions of naira paid as ransom by relations of victims.
Only in February this year, 28 students of Government Science College, Kagara, their teachers and relations were abducted but later released after about three weeks in captivity.
It was not known if anyone was killed or abducted because the mobile network in Kagara was disconnected last Friday for security operatives to carry out their operation.
“I cannot give you the details now. The people who called this evening are no longer reachable again. The network in Kagara has been disconnected since Friday. I believe even those who called went to bush to access network but it is true that the palace of Emir of Kagara was attacked,” a Minna-based indigene of Kagara told Daily Trust.
