Summary: Fatal Attack Causes Chaos at Mosque in Nigeria

Officials say that dozens have been killed in a gun and bomb attack during prayers at one of the biggest mosques in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Militants struck the central mosque in one of Nigeria’s biggest cities on Friday, intensifying the violence that has swept across the nation’s north in recent months. Nigerian police said 35 people were killed in the attack, but some eyewitnesses said far more people lost their lives. Many more people have been hurt, about 150. But some estimates were far higher, as corpses quickly piled up in hospitals and some still lay on the ground. Ahmed Mohammed Soron Dinki, one witness, said: “I was rushing to attend the mosque for the prayer when I heard a big sound and heavy smoke skyrocketed the sky,” “It was terrible. I saw more than 50 dead bodies on the bare ground of the mosque, and the majority of the dead bodies are kids and their parents.” Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009 and has killed more than 2,000 people this year, rights groups say. Boko Haram is the militant group that gained international notoriety by kidnapping more than 200 girls from a rural northern school in the spring. The latest explosions took place close to the palace of the emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sunusi II, who this month had called on Nigerians to resist Boko Haram and to defend themselves from the group. He was not believed to have been in the palace at the time of the attack.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/world/africa/deadly-mosque-attack-intensifies-violence-gripping-northern-nigeria.html

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