[size=20pt] Two more church bombings rocked Christian-dominated towns in Kaduna Sunday, bringing to five the number of explosions in the northern state, a local emergency official said.[/size]

“There were two simultaneous bomb attacks on churches in Nassarawa and Barnawa in the south of Kaduna this morning. We are yet to get information on casualities,” Kaduna spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Aliyu Mohammed told AFP.

Southern Kaduna is some four kilometres from Kaduna city and about two hours drive from Zaria, where three churches were hit by bomb explosions early Sunday. There have been no immediate reports of casualties.


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[size=20pt]Updated: Nigerian Red Cross says 2 killed, 48 injured in Kaduna attacks; locals say 24 killed, 125 injured[/size]

Update (3:10 p.m.) – Nigeria Red Cross says at least 2 killed, 48 wounded in church bombings in country’s north. See previous report below.

Reports say 24 killed, 125 injured in Kaduna church blasts and reprisal attacks


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Deadly explosions hit three churches in a norther Nigerian state on Sunday, claiming many lives and injuring others.

The attacks on the churches in the city of Zaria in Kaduna has sparked reprisal attacks as protesters took to the streets in the already tense restive region.

The Daily Trust reported that at least 13 people were killed in the bomb blasts at the Evangelical Church of West Africa in Wusasa, Christ the King Cathedral Catholic Church in Sabon Gari and Shalom Church at Trikania close.

The attacks happened mid service at about 10 a.m., the Trust reported.

According to the AP, the first two blasts were at ECWA and Christ the King Cathedral, both in Zaria city main, while the third explosion was at Shalom, located close to the nation’s capital city of Abuja.

National Emergency Management Agency spokesman, Yushau Shuaib, confirmed the explosion, but is yet to give a body count.


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The Nigerian Red Cross reported that rescuers were still at the gruesome crime scenes and are working to get victims to hospitals for immediate medical attention.

The report from the Red Cross, cited by the AP, indicated that young people began reprisal attacks in protest to the church attacks, further intensifying religious tensions in the northern city.

These bomb attacks come exactly one week after the church attacks in Jos and Biu in Maiduguri, claimed by the Boko Haram sect.

A spokesman for the radical Islamist sect said they had attacked the Christian Church of God in Jos and were behind the gun attack in Biu and both attacks were carried out to “teach security agents a lesson”.

The sect, who claim to want widespread acceptance of Shariah Law, have carried out countless attacks in north, mostly targeting Christian houses of worship and security agents.

The Trust reports that some 125 people have been injured in today’s bomb blasts and subsequent reprisal attacks.

Some sources reported that youths burnt a mosque at Television area and another at Gonin Gora was vandalized in retaliation.

Road blocks have been set up in strategic areas and traffic along the expressway is closely monitored by military forces.

The Daily Trust reported an uneasy calm in the city following the attacks and the Kaduna state government has reportedly imposed a dusk to dawn curfew until the situation is brought under control.


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I guess its dangerous to be going to church in the North.

Very Good.

AT least that will tell those folks to start (if they have not already) to channel their energy into revolution.