Abuja: At least 10 people were killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in the Nigerian city of Jos, media reported on Sunday.
The report stated that the bomber aimed his speeding car at St Finbar’s Catholic Church in the city then setting off a large explosion, killing himself and at least 10 churchgoers.
It was the second suicide bomb attack on a church in the flashpoint city in two weeks, after a February 26 attack claimed by Islamic extremist sect Boko Haram killed three people and injured 50 as they attended a Sunday service.
Jos, a fault line in Nigeria’s Muslim-Christian divide between north and south, was tense in the aftermath of the bombing amid fears of a reprise of deadly riots which followed last month’s attack.
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