Bauchi, Nigeria: At least one person was killed and another 46 injured when a suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, a report said.
The report said that the explosion heard after 9 a.m. Sunday in the city of Bauchi, which had seen a number of bombings and shootings blamed on the sect known as Boko Haram.
The blast appeared to hit a parking lot alongside the St. John’s Catholic Church in the city, the Associated Press reported.
Police and military surrounded the church and did not allow journalists inside the cordon. Later at a nearby hospital, Bauchi deputy police commissioner T. Stevens told journalists that the bomber had been stopped at the church’s gate, where he detonated the explosives packed inside his car.
Doctors cautioned more could die from their injuries.
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