At least 120 dead in Nigeria mosque suicide attack

Police officers stand near wreckage at a scene of multiple bombings at Kano Central Mosque on Friday. (Photo: Reuters)

At least 120 people were killed and 270 others wounded on Friday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers at the mosque of one of Nigeria's top Islamic leaders.

The attack at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north of the country, came just as Friday prayers had started.