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Nigeria bus crash kills 20

April 8, 2013 18:02
A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20 passengers, an official and a hospital source told AFP. The bus had set off from Nigeria's second city of Kano and was headed to Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state. Potiskum has been attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram Islamists, and the insurgency has forced state officials to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in several areas. The bus was reportedly speeding towards the city in order to beat the curfew when it crashed at roughly 5:00 pm (1600 GMT).

Nigeria says slain doctors were N. Koreans

February 10, 2013 13:00
Three doctors killed in a knife attack in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday were North Koreans, police and the state government said, after earlier confusion over the victims' nationalities. "The three men were from North Korea and not South Korea," Yobe state police commissioner Sanusi Rufa'i told AFP of the attack in the restive city of Potiskum. "They were doctors working in Potiskum on behalf of the state government."

Three slain in Nigeria attack are S.Korean: police

February 10, 2013 09:16
Three doctors killed in a knife attack in a volatile town in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday were South Korean and not Chinese as originally reported, police said. Men armed with knives slit the throats of the three Korean doctors in a pre-dawn attack in the town of Potiskum, police said, in the latest such killings in recent months. "Further investigations have shown that the victims were Korean nationals and not Chinese as earlier stated. They were doctors from South Korea," Yobe State police commissioner Sanusi Rufa'i told AFP.

URGENT ¥¥¥ Three Chinese doctors slain in north Nigeria: police

February 10, 2013 05:30
Armed men killed three Chinese doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in Nigeria's volatile northeastern town of Potiskum, police said. "Unknown attackers scaled over the fence of an apartment in Potiskum housing three Chinese doctors around 1:00 am and slit their throats. No arrest has been made," Yobe State police commissioner Sanusi Rufa'i told AFP. Residents said the Chinese were employees of the state ministry of health and had been in the volatile city for one year. abu-joa/lc
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