Boko Haram Kills 20 in Yobe Mosque.

Suspected Boko Haram members on Saturday opened fire in a mosque in Yobe and gunned down at least 20 worshippers.

Civil servant Musa Ibrahim said the gunmen struck before dawn Saturday as residents of Buni Gari village
were gathering for the first prayer of the day, Huffingtonpost reports.

The village is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the Yobe state capital of Damaturu in an area that
has been attacked numerous times.

In a related development, gunmen seized two Italian priests and a Canadian nun in northern Cameroon
late Friday night, in the latest kidnapping of Westerners in the remote, insurgency-wracked corner
of West Africa.

Agence France Presse reports that the attack occurred overnight in the small parish of Tchere, which lies
about 40 miles (60 kilometres) from the corner of northern Nigeria that serves as a base for the Islamist
Boko Haram group.

A group of armed men pulled up at the parish shortly before midnight, according to Henri Djonyang, the
region’s head vicar, information that was confirmed by police.

The gunmen ransacked the parish before seizing the priests and nun, according to news reports.

The priests were identified as Giampaolo Marta and Gianantonio Allegri and the nun as Gilberte Bussier.

One of the two priests taken on Friday night had been in Cameroon for more than six years while the second had arrived around a year ago, the Ansa media agency reported.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Djonyang pointed the finger of blame at Boko Haram,
who have carried out several kidnappings in the region over the past year.

Kidnappings of Westerners have become common in the remote and sparsely populated region, where
borders between countries are porous. In November 2013, French Catholic priest Georges Vandenbeusch was seized by heavily armed men who burst into his parish at night and reportedly took him
to neighbouring Nigeria in an attack claimed by Boko Haram.

In February 2013, a Frenchman employed by gas group Suez was kidnapped in the same area together
with his wife, their four children and his brother, while visiting a national park.

They were taken to Nigeria and also held by Boko Haram, before being released in April.