Group of Attackers believed to be from the Radical Islamist known as Boko Harram, Attacked and Murdered three Korean Doctors on Saturday night in Potiskum, a town in Yobe State, Nigeria. For the Past 18 months now the group has carried out a number of attacks in Yobe State.
The attackers apparently attacked the North Korean doctors inside their home, said Dr Mohammed Mamman, chairman of the hospital managing board of Yobe state. The doctors had no security guards at their residence and typically travelled around via three-wheel taxis without a police escort, officials said. By the time soldiers arrived at the Apartment, they found the doctor's wives cowering in a flowerbed outside their home. At the property, they found the corpses of the men, all bearing what appeared to be machete wounds.
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An AP journalist who later saw the doctors' bodies before they were moved to nearby Bauchi state for safe keeping. Two of the men had their throats slit, the other was decapitated.
The doctors were living in a quiet neighbourhood of the town because there was not room to house them at the hospital, where they would have had some security protection, Mamman said.
He told journalists that the three men were from North Korea and had lived in the state since 2005 as part of a medical programme between Yobe and the Pyongyang government.
There are more than a dozen other North Korean doctors posted to the state under the scheme, which also includes engineers, Mamman said. He said all will receive immediate protection from security forces. "It is very unfortunate," he said of the killings.
Yobe state's police commissioner, Sanusi Rufa, said officers had made 10 arrests after the killings. Police in Nigeria routinely round up those living around the site of a crime, whether or not there is any evidence against them or not.
No one has . claimed responsibility for the attack, though suspicion fell on the Boko Haram sect. an Islamic Extremist Group who has been against Western Education in Nigeria.
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