KANO, Nigeria ? An internal Red Cross document seen by an Associated Press reporter in north Nigeria's largest city shows at least 150 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks by a radical Islamist sect there.
A spokesman at Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, the city's largest, declined to immediately comment Sunday on the latest count.
The toll of the attacks claimed by Boko Haram could be seen as armed police drove by in a pickup truck with a corpse wrapped in a white burial shroud. Children outside the hospital also sold surgical masks to responders going into the hospital's overflowing mortuary.
President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Kano on Sunday afternoon to pay his condolences. A military attack helicopter flew over the city center as he visited, and soldiers stood guard around the areas where the sect had attacked Friday.
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