Gunmen kill three in central Nigeria mosque attack

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a mosque in the Nigerian town of Okene on Tuesday, a day after 19 were killed in gunfire at a church in the same town in a new outbreak of sectarian violence in central Nigeria, police said on Wednesday.

"There was a fresh attack yesterday at a mosque in Okene. Two soldiers died and another person in the crossfire," Kogi State Police Commissioner Muhammed Katsina told Reuters.

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