TWENTY people were killed when attackers armed with guns and bombs targeted two church services at a Nigerian university campus on Sunday.
While one of the services was held outdoors in the Bayero University in Kano, a northern city in Nigeria, the other service was being held inside a building with the audience spilling outside.
Although there was no immediate official confirmation of the casualty figure, one news agency put the toll at 20.
The attackers arrived in a car and two motorcycles, opening fire and throwing homemade bombs, causing a stampede among the worshippers. Witnesses said worshippers were gunned down as they sought to flee.
The open air service was the first to be targeted. The attackers threw explosives and fired shots. When a stampede ensued they chased the worshippers shooting them with guns. The church service held in the sporting complex was targeted next, reports said.
A crowd of people later gathered at a Kano hospital waiting to hear news about friends or family.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although the attack was similar to others carried out by the Islamist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram claimed January 20 attacks in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, when coordinated bombings and shootings left at least 185 dead in the extremists’ deadliest attack yet.
