At least five people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when a car bomb exploded at a church inside the Jaji military barracks in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, a military source said. Eyewitnesses reported hearing 2 blasts. "I saw five bodies and scores injured," a military officer who witnessed the bombing told
Reuters, asking not to be named.
A car bomb was detonated at a church inside military barracks in Jaji in Nigeria's Kaduna state on Sunday, two military sources said.
"A car drove into the church premises ... then detonated the bomb," one of the military officers told Reuters, asking not to be named.
The National Emergency Agency confirmed there had been an explosion inside the barracks and said it was "likely at a worship centre".
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Pandemonium as a huge bomb explodes inside a military protestant church inside the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji in Igabi local government area in Kaduna state. Sources at the military hospital in the cantonment where victims are presently being rushed to also say the number of casualties are high received so far are high.
Kaduna state in northern Nigeria has been the target of several bomb attacks this year, including on churches. Some have been claimed by Islamist sect Boko Haram, a group which has killed hundreds in an insurgency this year
Source: Elombah.com
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