<p> Gunmen have killed 18 guests at a wedding in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, local officials said Monday, in the latest violence in the region.</p>.<p>The gunmen on motorcycles stormed Kukum-Daji village in Kaura district late Sunday and opened fire on the guests, they said.</p>.<p>"The gunmen killed 18 people at the wedding party and injured 30 others, most of them young men," Bege Katuka Ayuba, the administrative head of the district told AFP.</p>.<p>"Fifteen died on the spot while three more died at the hospital," he said.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack but the area has been a hotbed of deadly violence between Muslim Fulani herders and ethnic Christian farmers.</p>.<p>The state police spokesman confirmed the attack without giving a toll.</p>.<p>"There have been reports of loss of lives in the attack but we don't have a definite casualty figure yet," Mohammed Jalinge told AFP.</p>.<p>The mainly-Christian Southern Kaduna area has been wracked by a long-standing dispute between farmers and herders over grazing and water rights.</p>.<p>There has been an upsurge in tit-for-tat killings between the two groups in recent times, prompting the state authorities to initiate an unsuccessful truce.</p>
<p> Gunmen have killed 18 guests at a wedding in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, local officials said Monday, in the latest violence in the region.</p>.<p>The gunmen on motorcycles stormed Kukum-Daji village in Kaura district late Sunday and opened fire on the guests, they said.</p>.<p>"The gunmen killed 18 people at the wedding party and injured 30 others, most of them young men," Bege Katuka Ayuba, the administrative head of the district told AFP.</p>.<p>"Fifteen died on the spot while three more died at the hospital," he said.</p>.<p>It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack but the area has been a hotbed of deadly violence between Muslim Fulani herders and ethnic Christian farmers.</p>.<p>The state police spokesman confirmed the attack without giving a toll.</p>.<p>"There have been reports of loss of lives in the attack but we don't have a definite casualty figure yet," Mohammed Jalinge told AFP.</p>.<p>The mainly-Christian Southern Kaduna area has been wracked by a long-standing dispute between farmers and herders over grazing and water rights.</p>.<p>There has been an upsurge in tit-for-tat killings between the two groups in recent times, prompting the state authorities to initiate an unsuccessful truce.</p>