The number of deaths recorded from the attack by bandits on some communities in Bakori and Kankara local government areas of Katsina State have risen to 84.
Bandits had reportedly killed no fewer than 41 members of vigilante group and residents in an ambush with an unspecified number injured in Kankara Local Government Area of the state Thursday evening.
However, locals of the affected communities had on Friday put the number of those killed at 58 and expressed fear that more corpses could be recovered from the area as others were still missing.
The victims were said to have mobilised to the forest in an effort to recover cattle rustled by terrorists who had earlier launched an attack on the community.
Sources said that unknown to the vigilante members and those who accompanied them, the terrorists who came through Bakori, were aware of their presence and they had already laid ambush for them, killing scores of them.
However, the number of people killed by bandits between the Kankara-Bakori axis in Katsina State has risen to 84, according to Daily trust.
It was learnt that 26 more dead bodies were recovered on Saturday evening by security operatives and some volunteers after combing the scene of the killings.
An eyewitness told the news outlet on Sunday that he saw a vehicle at Yargoje junction moving 26 more dead bodies to Bakori communities.