Gunmen have killed at least 15 people and wounded many more yesterday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Massgoers in Kano, where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year.
Security sources said gunmen arrived on motorbikes and threw small homemade bombs into the theatre before shooting fleeing worshippers. There was sporadic gunfire in other parts of the city later on from attackers driven from the university by the army, the sources said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, which wants to carve out an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed hundreds in bomb and gun attacks this year. It mainly targets police and authority figures but has also attacked churches. Boko Haram set off a series of bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day last year, including one at a church that killed at least 37 people. – (Reuters)