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Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamists claim responsibility for attack on Churches
Monday, June 11, 2012
The most recent attack on a church Easter Sunday saw a suicide car bomber detonate his explosives in the Nigerian city of Kaduna after apparently turning away from a church, killing at least 41 people. On Christmas Day, a Boko Haram-claimed car bomb attack on a Catholic church in Madalla near Nigeria’s capital and assaults elsewhere in the country killed at least 44 people.
In Jos, a city in Nigeria’s fertile central belt, religious rioting and violence has killed thousands in the last decade. However, the attacks often take root in political and economic disputes between the many ethnic groups living in the region.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
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