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Nigeria gunmen kill six people at Christmas mass

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25-12-2012 | 11:00

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Nigeria gunmen kill six people at Christmas mass

Gunmen have attacked a church in northern Nigeria during Christmas Eve midnight mass, killing six people including the pastor, before setting the building ablaze, as reported by the residents and police.

"A group of gunmen came into the village at midnight and went straight to the church," said Usman Mansir, a resident of Peri village near Potiskum, the economic capital of Yobe state.

"They opened fire on them, killing the pastor and five worshipers. They then set fire to the church," he added, specifying that a branch of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) was targeted.

A senior police official in Yobe confirmed the details to AFP, but declined to be named.

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