At least 16 people were killed today in an attack on church services at a university campus in the north of Nigeria, an official with the Nigerian Red Cross said.

Andronicus Adeyemo said there were also a number of people injured, though the aid agency did not have an exact figure. He said officials canvassed local hospitals to get the figure.

The attack happened this morning at Kano's Bayero University. Police said gunmen attacked a Catholic Mass on the campus, using small explosives to draw worshippers out before shooting those who fled.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, though it mirrored others previously claimed by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. That group carried out a co-ordinated assault in Kano in January that killed at least 185 people.

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