At least seven worshippers were killed in an attack on a mosque by a gang of gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, police said on Saturday.
The attack, in the remote Saya village of the Ikara local government area of the state, occurred late on Friday as worshippers gathered for prayer, Kaduna police spokesman Mansur Haruna said by phone.
Two others injured during the attack were taken to hospital for treatment, Haruna said.
The attacks have confounded Nigeria’s security forces that are overstretched combating a 14-year Islamist insurgency in the northeast, violent farmer-herder and sectarian clashes in the central region, and rising attacks by a separatist group in the southeast.
