27/01/2014
Attacks by extremists kill about 75 Nigerians
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria ? Suspected Islamic extremists used explosives and heavy guns to attack a village in one state and a church in another in Nigeria's northeast, killing about 75 people and razing hundreds of homes, officials and witnesses said Monday. The attack on Kawuri village in Borno state, which killed 52 people, resulted in one of the highest death tolls in recent attacks by militants who are defying an 8-month old military state of emergency in three states in northern Nigeria designed to halt an Islamic uprising there. The attackers set off several explosions in Kawuri...
