Reports from #Nigeria say suspected militants have gunned down over 40 people praying at a mosque in northeastern state of Borno.#BokoHaram

naptu2: Militants gun down 40 people in a mosque in Borno.


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Reports from #Nigeria say suspected militants have gunned down over 40 people praying at a mosque in northeastern state of Borno.#BokoHaram

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8.12.2013, 15:08 PM

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Suspected Islamic militants gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, two security agents said Monday, the latest in a slew of violence blamed on religious extremists in this country.

The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, 22 miles outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state.


A state security service agent and a member of a civilian vigilante group working with the military said Monday they counted the bodies at the mosque after the attack. Usman Musa of the civilian group says four of its vigilantes were also killed when they responded to calls for help.

Along the way from Maiduguri to Konduga, the civilian activists encountered "fierce resistance from heavily armed terrorists," Musa said.


The state security agent spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

Nigeria has been besieged by an Islamic uprising led by the Boko Haram militant group, which has gone after a range of targets including Christians outside churches, teachers and schoolchildren and moderate Muslim clerics who have spoken out against extremism.

Nigeria declared a state of emergency in much of the northeast on May 14 to fight the Islamic uprising, whose goal is to impose Islamic law across a country divided almost equally between the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south. The insurgency poses the greatest threat in years to security this country of more than 160 million, which is Africa's biggest oil producer and most populous nation.

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12 August 2013 Last updated at 20:42

BREAKING NEWS

At least 44 worshippers have been shot dead at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, reports say.

The killings reportedly took place during prayers on Sunday morning, although news only emerged on Monday.

The attack took place in Konduga in Borno state, 35km (22 miles) from the state capital Maiduguri.

It is not clear who was responsible for the shootings. The Islamist group Boko Haram has killed thousands in northern Nigeria since 2009.

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Ola' Audu - 1 min ago

The Boko Haram leader claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Some members of the terror group, Boko Haram, dressed in military uniform, crept upon worshipping villagers in a mosque in Konduga, 34km southeast of Maiduguri, and shot dead at least 44 worshippers, injuring 26 others, sources said.

A House of Assembly member representing Konduga in the State Assembly, Ali Dalori, confirmed the attack to journalists, but declined giving details of the casualty.

A hospital security guard, who pleaded anonymity at the Accident and Emergency ward of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that 26 persons were brought to the hospital on Sunday.

“Some are admitted here in the A and E ward and others have been taken to the Amenity Ward; we are under instructions not to allow visitors into the ward, please,” said the security guard.

The Konduga attack coincided with a similar attack on Ngom village, 5km east of Maiduguri, where about 12 villagers were killed.

An operative of the vigilante in Maiduguri tagged Civilian-JTF, Usman Musa, told reporters in Maiduguri that a troop of soldiers and youth vigilante had been deployed to Konduga on Sunday but met a fierce resistance from the heavily armed terrorists.

“We lost four of our members in the Civilian-JTF when they arrived Konduga yesterday, I don’t know about the soldiers; but it was a very bad incident yesterday. Some of our members made it back on foot through bush paths this morning,” Musa said.

The Military Joint Task Force, JTF, is yet to speak on the latest Borno Killings while some Nigerians have continued to question the effectiveness of the State of Emergency in Borno and neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa states as the killings by insurgents continue.

The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has in a video, claimed the responsibility for the killings in Konduga and earlier ones in Gamboru and others that led to the death of at least 14 soldiers.

Harbioollah:

People like you makes me doubt every human has a brain

Harbioollah:

People like you makes me doubt every human has a brain

rafhell:

It is unfortunate and difficult to believe. But it is the truth.

chiozor: Nice one.go GEJ.confusion in their kingdom. Ndi ara

sonyjacobs: Civilian JTF where are you

Psylas: comfirmed! Maybe shia muslims decleard jihad ϑή sunni muslims