The militant Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 110 people of various faiths across Nigeria during the past week, prompting the country's top Catholic bishop to declare the rebel movement "has no limits".
Last Thursday, gunmen killed Reverend Augustine Yohana, a Catholic priest, and two of his sons in Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe, then set their home and church building ablaze. The Nigerian news service Daily Trust quoted one of Yoahana's surviving sons, Ibrahim, as saying the gunmen arrived in their town of Garinbaba in the middle of the night, "woke us up, asked us to lie down in front of the church, tied our hands with rope and said they are security personnel on search mission".
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