Gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshipers as they were leaving a mosque in northern Nigeria today (October 14, 2012), killing at least 22 people, according to the Reuters website.
The attack occurred in a remote village called Dogo Dawa, in Kaduna state. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Like much of northern Nigeria, Kaduna is plagued by an insurgency led by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. They usually attack security forces, government officials, or Christians, but have also hit Muslim clerics and mosques in the past -- especially those that do not follow their hardline brand of Islam.
Kaduna lies close to Nigeria's volatile "Middle Belt," where Nigeria's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south meet, and where tensions over land and ethnicity often erupt into violence. Abdulladhi Muhammad, a Kaduna government official, said the attack was most likely carried out by a local criminal gang.
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