Police in northern Nigeria say at least 14 people have been killed by gunmen in drive-by shootings. In recent weeks, the Islamist group Boko Haram has repeatedly targeted Christians. Mark Lobel reports from Lagos.
While they were mourning a loved one and deciding what to do with the
corpse
, relatives and friends of a person shot on Thursday were also
gunned down
. Both attacks bore the hallmarks of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram as killers on motorbikes conducted the drive-by Kalashnikov shootings that had become synonymous with a reign of terror now sweeping the north. The attackers chanted Muslim slogans, according to one eyewitness who hid under a table. The gunmen had stormed a meeting of Christians from a southern ethnic group in a town hall in rural northeast Nigeria.
The United States navy has rescued a group of Iranian fishermen who'd been held by pirates in the Arabian Sea. The announcement comes amid tensions between the West and Iran in the Gulf. James Reynolds reports.
Earlier this week, Iran issued a warning to the United States: keep your aircraft carrier away from the Gulf. But now this same carrier, the John C Stennis, has led the rescue of a group of Iranian fishermen. The US navy says that its strike group in the northern Arabian Sea came across a pirate skiff
moored
next to an Iranian fishing boat. An American team boarded the boat and captured 15 suspected pirates. The pirates had been holding 13 Iranian fishermen captive for several weeks.