### [2012-01-6](/feed/2012/01/6/index.md)

##### Kano
# Eight people are killed and 10 wounded in Kano, in the latest in a series of attacks on church in northern Nigeria. 




### Sources:

1. [CNN](http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/world/africa/nigeria-violence/?hpt=hp_t2)
2. [VOA](https://web.archive.org/web/20120110011641/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Gunmen-Kill-6-in-Nigerian-Church-Attack-136799493.html)

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