Boko Haram hits Gombe church on newyear’s day
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Gombe city during a New Year service, wounding eight people, an official for Nigeria’s Red Cross told Reuters on Thursday.
“This morning while people were in church for the New Year worship, a suicide attacker rode on a motorcycle trying to gain entrance to the premises of the church. When he was stopped at the gates by the church guards...he blew himself up and injured eight people,” the official said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
It was the second attack in two days in state capital and the fourth attack in two months. The city’s military barracks were attacked by a suicide bomber on New Year’s Eve.
A suspected suicide bomb had on Wednesday gone off in an open-air recreational area at a military barracks in the city, a security source and a local journalist at the scene told Reuters. The journalist, David Hassan, said he believed there were fatalities but did not have details.
A source from within the barracks said the bomber arrived at the Mammy Market area of the compound, where soldiers go to eat and drink after hours, on a three-wheel motorcycle.
The area is usually busy with people, especially on New Year’s Eve.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility.A suicide bomb also went off in a bus in Yobe State earlier on Wednesday, in which at least six people were killed, according to a witness.
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