Nigeria: Four killed in attack on mosque

Attack on Tuesday evening - On Monday, a church had been attacked. Abuja - Following an attack on a church in Nigeria on Monday night it came on Tuesday evening for another attack. "There was a new attack on a mosque in Okene," said Muhammed Katsina, Kogi State Commissioner of Police to the news agency Reuters. This, according to the newspaper "The Nation" (online edition), four people were killed, as Kathpress announced. Katsina, meanwhile, reported a total of three dead, including two soldiers. According to "The Nation" drove at the time of afternoon prayer on Tuesday in front of attackers dressed in white robes with a pick-up before the central mosque Okene and opened fire. The governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, media reportedly imposed a nighttime curfew. The presence of security forces on the streets has increased. Was on Monday during the evening prayers were in a similar attack on the "Deeper Life Church" killed in the central city of Okene 19 people. Behind the terrorist act, the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram ("Western education is sin") is suspected.The "Nigerian Taliban", as the group itself, have in recent months repeatedly attacked churches, mosques, police stations and international institutions. They demand the establishment of an Islamic state.