This is actually the second state that will be reported to have experience bomb blast today.
Explosions at three churches in Kaduna state killed at least
seven people on Sunday, leading furious Christian youths to drag
Muslims out of their cars and kill them in retaliation, officials and
witnesses said.
The explosions and retaliatory attacks stoked fears of wider
sectarian conflict in the state.
Two explosions rocked churches in the town of Zaria within minutes of
each other. First, a suicide bomber drove a blue Honda civic into a
church, burning the front entrance and damaging the building, the
church’s pastor, Reverend Nathan Waziri said at the scene.
“Three people are confirmed killed. Others have been taken to
hospital for treatment,” Mr Waziri said.
Then, militants threw bombs at another church, killing four children
who were playing on the streets outside, said resident Deborah Osagie,
who lives opposite the church. She added that the militants were later
caught by a mob and killed.
A blast hit a third church in the state’s main city of Kaduna,
causing an unknown number of casualties, witnesses and the National
Emergency Management Agency said.
After the bombs, angry youths blocked the highway leading south out
of Kaduna to the capital Abuja, dragging Muslims out of their cars and
killing them, witnesses said.
“We had to return home when we saw them (the Christian youths)
attacking. I saw many bodies on the ground but I don’t know how many
were dead or just injured,” said Kaduna resident Rafael Gwaza.
Another witness, Haruna Isah said up to 20 people may have been
killed in reprisals at the road block. “There were bodies everywhere on
the ground,” he said.
Regular attacks on Sunday church services are usually claimed by Boko
Haram, which says it is fighting to reinstate an ancient Islamic
caliphate that would adhere to strict sharia, or Islamic law.
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