Gunmen kill eight in Nigerian church

11:10 AEDT Sat Jan 7 2012

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Gunmen killed eight people when they opened fire on worshippers at a church in the capital city of the Nigerian state of Adamawa on Friday.

"Bodies were brought in from the church attack, we have between eight and 10 bodies," a hospital source said.

The killings took place on Friday night at a church in downtown Yola, where up to 17 were killed in an attack, earlier in the day, on Christians at a house as they mourned the death of a friend shot dead the night before.

"There was an attack at the Christian Apostolic church this evening. Some gunmen went into the church and opened fire on worshippers killing some people and wounding several others," said a journalist who lives in Yola and asked not to be named.

The hospital source could not give the numbers of wounded "because nurses and doctors are treating the victims."

On Thursday night, gunmen stormed a church in the northeastern city of Gombe and opened fire as worshippers were praying, killing six people, including the pastor's wife.

The attacks come as a three-day ultimatum issued by a purported spokesman for an Islamist group Boko Haram, for Christians to leave the north.

Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8399628/gunmen-kill-eight-in-nigerian-church

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