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President
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Three
South Korean doctors have been killed in the north-eastern Nigerian state of
Yobe, officials say.
Residents
said they were killed during the night in the town of Potiskum. Two of them had
their throats slit while the third was beheaded, they added.
Officials
said the victims had been working at a government-run hospital.
No-one
has said they were behind the attack, but it happened in an area where the
Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has been active in recent years.
More
than 600 people were believed to have been killed in 2012 by the group, which
is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state in
Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north.
'No
guards'
Yobo state police commissioner Sanusi Rufai said it was nevertheless too early to know who was behind the attack, which happened either late on Saturday or before dawn on Sunday. Police have begun an investigation.
The
victims were reportedly found inside their flat on Sunday morning, after people
became worried that they were not answering the door.
An
official at the General Hospital in Potiskum told the Associated Press that the
victims were South Korean and had worked there.
He
added that their block of flats had no security guards, and that they had
routinely travelled through the town in taxis without a police escort.
However,
several residents told AFP that the doctors were Chinese nationals who had been
employed by the state ministry of health for about a year. Mr Rufai also said
they were from China.
On
Friday, nine polio vaccination workers - all said to have been women - were
shot dead in northern Nigeria. Some were killed in Kano, others at a health
centre in Hotoro, outside the city.
President
Goodluck Jonathan condemned the killings, for which no group has claimed
responsibility, and vowed that the campaign to eradicate polio would be carried
through to a successful conclusion.
Source:
BBC.
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