Suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Thursday opened fire in a church in Nigeria's restive northeast, killing the pastor and his two children before setting fire to the building and fleeing, the military said.
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Boko Haram, which has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria, has repeatedly attacked churches in its four-year insurgency.
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"Unknown gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists attacked" the church in Yobe state early on Thursday, area military spokesman Eli Lazarus said in a statement.
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"During the attack, a pastor and his two children were killed," he said.
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The church "and two other houses in the community were burnt by the gunmen before fleeing the scene of the incident," the statement further said.
I thought we've heard the last already but apparently I was wrong. God will save us from them is all I know. May the deceased rest in peace!