Dozens killed in Nigerian cattle market attack

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.

The casualty figure could be higher from the attack in Potiskum, a town in Nigeria’s Yobe state, as Muslim mourners often quickly bury their dead without taking bodies to authorities.