6 killed after services at Nigerian church

KADUNA, Nigeria — Gunmen killed six people at a church in northeast Nigeria early Tuesday, the third year running that Christmas services have come under deadly attack in the country, the military said.

The shooting took place after a Christmas Eve midnight service outside the town of Potiskum in northeastern Yobe state, where Islamist sect Boko Haram has carried out several attacks this year in a campaign to impose strict Islamic law.