From correspondents in Kano, Nigeria
     AFP
     April 29, 2012 9:11PM

A BOMB and gun attack on a theatre used for church services at a
university in the Nigerian city of Kano today has left at least 20
people dead, witnesses and officials said.

An AFP reporter saw six bullet-riddled corpses at the scene of the
attack at Bayero University. Musical instruments and half-eaten meals
were left behind at the open-air theatre.

An army spokesman said several wounded people had been taken to hospital.

"The attack took place in one of the lecture theatres used as a place of
worship by Christians," said Lieutenant Iweha Ikedichi.

"There were casualties, but I don't have exact figures. Some have been
rushed to local hospitals."

Soldiers cordoned off the area and were not allowing residents through.

Dozens of students usually attend services at the theatre at Bayero
University on Sundays.

Islamist group Boko Haram claimed January 20 attacks in Kano, the
largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, when coordinated bombings
and shootings left at least 185 dead, the extremists' deadliest attack yet.

Last Thursday, bomb attacks at newspaper offices in the capital Abuja
and the northern city of Kaduna left at least nine people dead.

The group has previously targeted churches, including on Christmas day
when at least 44 people were killed in a bombing at a church outside the
capital Abuja.

A bombing on Easter Sunday in Kaduna near a church that killed at least
41 people was a stark reminder of the Christmas attacks, but Boko Haram
is not known to have claimed it.

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