Saturday, January 7, 2012

Fears Christians are being targeted by radical Muslims as 20 are killed in Nigerian town hall massacre

Suspected gunmen from a radical Muslim sect attacked a town hall Friday in rural northeast Nigeria, killing at least 20 people who had gathered for a meeting of a Christian ethnic group, police said.

The attack at noon targeted a town hall where Christian Igbo people were holding a meeting, with gunmen chanting 'God is great' as they fired Kalashnikov rifles.

The killings come after a spokesman for the sect known as Boko Haram threatened to begin specifically targeting Christians living in the country's Muslim north in its increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083291/Nigeria-At-20-dead-Nigerian-town-hall-massacre-sectarian-violence-spirals.html

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