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22 worshipers killed during church service in Nigeria
27 Jan 2014 at 17:56hrs | Views
YOLA - Assailants armed with guns and explosives killed 22 people at a busy church service in a north-east Nigerian village, witnesses said yesterday, in a region where Islamist sect Boko Haram is resisting a military crackdown.
They set off bombs and fired shots into the crowd during the attack on the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege, witnesses said.
President Goodluck Jonathan is struggling to contain Boko Haram in remote rural regions in the country's north-eastern corner, where the sect first launched an uprising in 2009.
They set off bombs and fired shots into the crowd during the attack on the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege, witnesses said.
President Goodluck Jonathan is struggling to contain Boko Haram in remote rural regions in the country's north-eastern corner, where the sect first launched an uprising in 2009.
Source - Reuters
