Denver Post:
April 29 2012
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—Witnesses say gunmen shot dead at least five people attending a church worship service in northeast Nigeria, including the pastor. That comes as gunmen killed at least 16 in a separate attack.
Witnesses say the gunmen attacked a Church of Christ in Nigeria church Sunday in Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. The witnesses declined to be named for fear of reprisals.
Police spokesman Samuel Tizhe confirmed the attack took place.
Meanwhile Sunday, the Nigerian Red Cross said at least 16 people were killed in an attack on church services at the campus of Bayero University in the northern city of Kano.
No group has claimed the attacks, though they mirror others carried out by Boko Haram.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
KANO, Nigeria (AP)—Gunmen attacked church services on a university campus Sunday in northern Nigeria, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshippers in an assault that killed at least 16 people, officials said.
The attackers targeted an old section of Bayero University’s campus where religious groups use a theater and other areas to hold worship services, Kano state police spokesman Ibrahim Idris said. The assault left many others seriously wounded, Idris said.
“By the time we responded, they entered (their) motorcycles and disappeared into the neighborhood,” the commissioner said.
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The war is a global war, one we have to fight all around the world. I wish we weren’t hampered by the politically correct who refuse to accept that we are in a war of survival.