Suicide bomber injures Nigerian churchgoers hours after 7 die in bus bomb

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an evangelist church in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, injuring several people. “There was an explosion outside the ECWA church this morning. A suicide bomber who was restrained from getting into the church blew himself up,” said Abubakar Yakubu, who heads the Nigeria Red Cross in Gombe. “Luckily no one was killed but some people were mildly injured.” A witness said the man arrived during the church service and refused to park his motorcycle outside a security barrier set up by church volunteers.

He insisted on riding through the barrier. It was while he was arguing with the volunteers that his suicide belt exploded.

Eyewitness Dahiru Badamasi

Earlier, a female suicide bomber was killed as she tried to enter a military barracks and seven died in a bus explosion. Soldiers opened fire on the woman when she refused to be searched as she approached the barracks in Bolari, in Gombe state, detonating the explosives belt she was wearing. The woman, who was wearing a hijab, was killed instantly, witnesses said. On Wednesday, seven people were reported killed when a bus exploded in a village close to Potiskum, the commercial capital of northern Yobe state. No official confirmation of the death toll has been given.

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