Gunmen in northern Nigeria attacked a college theater employed for church solutions, killing at the least 15 people today.
Security officials say the gunmen threw compact explosives into the web page at Bayero College in Kano on Sunday, then fired on worshippers as they ran outside.
A college member, Dr. Nasir Fagge, informed VOA the killings occurred at two locations in the college, which protection had been increased within the days major up to the attack in light of other lethal incidents inside the city.
He also said 3 professors had been amongst those killed.
One of a minimum of 22 folks wounded within the Sunday's assault described the assault as coming just before service began.
“We were about to start the mass, then we commence hearing gunshots, pah pah pah, and I ducked down due to the fact I am a retired soldier, and that I stated I will not operate absent to anyplace.”
Authorities said the attackers fled ahead of protection officers arrived, prompting police to cordon off the region, keeping out even crisis staff for a time.
No 1 has claimed obligation for your attack, which resembled other people carried out by the Islamic militant team Boko Haram.
The team claimed responsibility for fatal attacks on Thursday at the places of work of this Daynewspaper within the northern metropolis of Kaduna and the money, Abuja.
Boko Haram, whose title means “Western training is actually a sin” in the Hausa language, is attempting to switch Nigeria into an Islamic state. It has killed over 1,000 folks because 2009.
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