Dozens have been killed in a gun and bomb attack during Friday prayers at one of the biggest mosques in the Nigerian city of Kano, reports say. Many more people have been hurt, with one rescue official putting casualty figures at just under 200.

The Central Mosque is where the influential Muslim leader, the Emir of Kano, usually leads prayers. The emir recently called for people to arm themselves against Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The group has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009 and has killed more than 2,000 people this year, rights groups say.

The rescue official, speaking to Agence France-Presse, put the casualty toll at 64 dead and 126 hurt, although this has not been independently confirmed.

It is clear it is not only Christians who face the threat of violence in northern Nigeria. This is a major mosque, frequented by one of the country’s most influential Muslim leaders, Kano’s emir.

Emir Muhammad Sanusi II has criticised Boko Haram and only last week urged civilians to take up arms against the group. T   »»» BBC News

Boko Harem in Nigeria, like ISIS in Iraq and Syria, are guilty of major crimes against thousands of people, without regard to race, religion, ethnicity. They cloak their socio-political objectives under the banner of Islam but in fact they are Muslim renegades, blasphemers and heretics. The Qur’an calls people like them “munafikun” (hypocrites) because they pretend to follow the Laws of God but in fact do not. The Qur’an says that they will be consigned to the lowest depths of hell.

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