2014 Kano attack

When

28 Nov 2014

Kind

Event

Coordinates

12.00° N, 8.52° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2014 Kano attack.

Gunmen set off three bombs and fire at worshippers at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano after the Emir, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, had issued a call to arms against Boko Haram. At least 120 people are killed.

2014 Boko Haram terror attack in Northern Nigeria, Nigeria

The 2014 Kano bombing was a terrorist attack on 28 November 2014, at the Central Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim Northern Nigeria during the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. The mosque is next to the palace of the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, Nigeria's second most senior Muslim cleric, who had urged the civilians to protect themselves by arming up against Boko Haram.

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