Gunmen kill 20 in Kaduna

Started by Sunexx360, Oct 14, 2012, 12:38 PM

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Gunmen have opened fire on Muslim worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Kaduna state this morning, killing at least 20 people.
The attack happened in a remote village called Dogo Dawa, in Kaduna state, said Abdullahi Muhammad, the traditional ruler and councillor of Birnin Gwari, a local government area next door to the village.
The state police commissioner Olufemi Adenaike confirmed the incident, but did not give a death toll.
Also this morning, there has been an explosion accompanied by sounds of ongoing gunshots on Bama road of Lagos Street in Maiduguri.
Lagos Street was the place were an explosionkilled some soldiers about a week ago leading to retaliatory attacks on civilians and houses by security operatives, which allegedlyled to the death of about 35 people