Christian youths killed at
least 10 people in reprisal attacks after
a suspected suicide bomber hit a
Catholic church in the central Nigerian
city of Jos on Sunday, killing three
people, authorities said.
"The situation is bad," Sati Dakwat,
health commissioner for Jos, told
Reuters. "Several were killed in the
reprisal attacks, more than 10."
A Reuters reporter at the scene of the
church bombing was unable to gain
access, as the police had cordoned off
the area around Finber's Catholic
Church in the Rayfield suburb of Jos.
"We haven't got actual figures of
injured yet, but at least three people
have been confirmed dead by our men
attending the scene of the blast," the
Jos coordinator for the National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
Al Hassan Aliyu said.
But he later added that "the situation is
calm now", after the initial reprisals by
Christian youths.
Earlier NEMA called it a suspected
suicide bombing, but Aliyu said this was
not yet confirmed.
Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed
responsibility for a wave of bomb
attacks on churches across Nigeria
since Christmas Day. The bombing
campaign has raised fears that the
group is trying to ignite sectarian
conflict in Africa's most populous
country, split roughly evenly between
Christians and Muslims.
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