Nigeria, April 3 -- The police say they are probe the killing of a man during Kano Emir Lamido Sanusi's Sallah day procession on Sunday.

The disturbance occurred when Mr Sanusi returned home from Eid prayers on Sunday.

The police and other security agencies in the state had banned the traditional Sallah Durbar procession, "in pursuit of safe and secure celebration and to sustain the relative peace and public order in the state."

The police spokesperson in the state, Abdullahi Kiyawa, announced in a statement on Thursday that the agency had set up a Special Investigation Panel for the probe.

"The panel will examine the causes of the incident and any violations of the police ban on Durbar and horse-riding during the Sallah celebrations....