Death toll in Nigeria’s Kano at least 178 -doctor

KANO, (Reuters) – The death toll from gun and bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has risen to
at least 178, a doctor in its main hospital said today, making this by far the deadliest attack claimed by the radical
Islamist sect Boko Haram.
“We have 178 people killed in the two main hospitals,” the senior doctor in Kano’s Murtala Mohammed hospital said following
Friday’s attacks, citing records from his own and the other main hospital of Nasarawa.
“There could be more, because some bodies have not yet come in and others were collected early.”