A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in
Gombe city during a New Year service, wound 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 riding 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 at tacked 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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