Red Cross: 16 killed in attack on Catholic worship service at Nigeria university

KANO, Nigeria (AP) –  An official with the Nigerian Red Cross says at least 16 people were killed in an attack on church services at a university campus in the country's north.


Andronicus Adeyemo said there were also a number of people wounded, though the aid agency did not have an exact figure. He said officials canvassed local hospitals to get the figure.


The attack happened Sunday morning at Kano's Bayero University. Police say gunmen attacked a Catholic Mass on the campus, using small explosives to draw worshippers out before shooting those who fled.


No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, though it mirrored others previously claimed by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. That group carried out a coordinated assault in Kano in January that killed at least 185 people.