Robbers angered by a crowd burning one of their colleagues alive attacked a cattle market in north east Nigeria, killing at least 34 people in the latest violence fanning across the bloodied region, witnesses and an official said.

Gunmen suspected of being members of a radical Islamist sect have killed at least four people – including a six-year-old girl – in recent attacks in Nigeria’s volatile north-east, authorities said today.

A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria’s north-east during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said today, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group’s widening sectarian fight against the country’s government.

Members of a radical Muslim sect attacked a church in north-east Nigeria during a worship service, part of a series of assaults that killed at least 13 people, authorities said.

At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in north-east Nigeria overnight, officials said today, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead.

TROOPS struggled to crush an Islamic sect in northern Nigeria yesterday as the death toll from four days of clashes surged past 300 and thousands of people were forced from their homes.