Nigeria, Oct. 30 -- The Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina, confirmed on Thursday that no post-mortem examination had been conducted on the remains of Islamic cleric Sheikh Yahaya Masussuka, who was killed alongside a companion by gunmen in Dutsin-Ma three days earlier.

The remains had been embalmed and were still in the mortuary ahead of a funeral scheduled for Friday, 30 October.

Suleiman Abubakar, a longtime associate who witnessed the attack, described the shooting and the consultations among family members and elders that delayed the burial while investigations continued.

Yahaya Yahuza, the mortician in charge of the hospital's mortuary unit, told PREMIUM TIMES during a visit on Thursday that Mr Masussuka's remains arrived at appr...