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| Easter car bomb kills several people in Kaduna |
| 2012-04-08 |
| A car bomb blew up in the north Nigerian town of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, killing several people, after security officers stopped the driver from approaching a church. Tony Udo, a Kaduna resident, said, "A suicide bomber in a vehicle was moving towards the ECWA Church and the All Nations Christian Assembly. Security agents accosted and repelled him. While he was driving away, the bomb went off at Junction Road, near the Stadium roundabout, killing the bomber and some commercial motorcyclists. "The blast from the bomb also shattered the windows of the church, some nearby houses and vehicles parked nearby. The area has been condoned off by security agents." Nigeria has stepped up security across the largely Muslim north before Easter because of fears of a repeat of attacks by Boko Haram that killed dozens on Christmas Day last year. In the remote northeast town of Maiduguri, a Boko Haram stronghold, the military outnumbered the public on some streets on Sunday. In NigeriaÂ’s second biggest city Kano, where coordinated attacks in January killed 186 people, authorities deployed trucks of soldiers and a helicopter to try to prevent violence. Jenifer Paul, a housewife in Kano said, "I will stay away from church because we have been told by our pastor to be careful. We are afraid, everybody is afraid because we donÂ’t know when the next attack will come." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 Do not forget rockets fired into Sderot for Pesach. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-04-08 21:45 |
| #4 The Easter Bommy? |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-04-08 21:14 |
| #3 Nobody seems to have noticed the closure, g(r)omgoru. Not even the Guardian or Al Jazeera. Separately, the Kaduna death count is up to 38, according to Ay Pee. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-08 15:01 |
| #2 On a totally unrelated subject. Anybody compiled a list of all the individuals/organizations condemning Israel for closing "Palestinian territories" for Passover? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-04-08 13:28 |
| #1 At least 20 dead, according to AFP. More details here. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-08 11:16 |