Three South Korean doctors brutally killed in Nigeria
February 10, 2013  19:53

In a brutal pre-dawn attack, unknown assailants killed three South Korean doctors, beheading one of them, in Nigeria's volatile northern state of Yobe, police said today.   "They invaded the apartment of the doctors....and slit their throats," Sanusi Rufai, the commissioner of police of Yobe state said on the attack that occurred in the town of Potiskum.        

 

Residents say the slain doctors worked at a general hospital in Yobe. Two of them had their throats slit while the third was beheaded, they added. The victims were reportedly found inside their flat this morning, after people became worried that they were not answering the door. fficials said the victims had been working at a government-run hospital.

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