A bomb detonated during a service at an EYN church, an acronym that means "Church of the Brethen in Nigeria" in the local Hausa language of Nigeria's north in Biu, a city in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, witnesses said. An usher at the church was killed while others were injured, elombah.com learnt.

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This is even as bombers attacked the Evangelical Church Winning All chapel in the city, in Jos, Plateau State causing unknown injuries in the latest attacks in a region under increasing assault by the boko haram radical Islamist sect, witnesses said. The bomb exploded during church services this morning.

Local police spokesman Abuh Emmanuel confirmed the attack at the Jos church, but declined to give any details on the bombing. A state government spokesman also could not be reached for comment.

Nigeria faces a growing wave of sectarian violence carried out by a sect known as Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in Hausa.

Boko Haram has been blamed for killing more than 560 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

The sect's targets have included churches, police stations and other security buildings, often attacked by suicide car bombers across northern Nigeria.

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