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Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamists suspected on suicide bombing attack on church that kills 2
The sect has used suicide car bombs against churches in the past, most noticeably a 2011 Christmas Day attack on a Catholic church in Madalla near Nigeria’s capital. That attack and assaults elsewhere in the country killed at least 44 people.
An unclaimed car bombing on Easter in Kaduna killed at least 38 people on a busy roadway after witnesses say it was turned away from a church.
Attacks against churches by the sect have waned in recent weeks.
Nigeria’s military claimed it killed the sect’s spokesman and a commander September 17 outside the city of Kano, potentially shaking up the Boko Haram sect that has continued attacks despite a tighter military presence in northern cities.
The killing of members of the Boko Haram senior leadership comes as the group recently changed some of its tactics and attacked more than 30 mobile phone towers throughout northern Nigeria, disrupting communications in a nation reliant on cellular phones.
Saturday night, the military conducted door-to-door searches in the northern cities of Damaturu and Potiskum, areas now under a 24-hour curfew that have been hard-hit by the sect.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
