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Nigeria update: Buhari to Jonathan – your administration is incompetent
At the church near Abuja, a wounded man whose legs were almost shattered to pieces by the blast was loaded onto a stretcher near an ambulance by security services.
“I’ll survive,” he said in a hushed voice.
The blast in Jos, a tinderbox of ethnic and sectarian tensions where deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians have occurred, was accompanied by a shooting spree by militants, who exchanged fire with local police, said Charles Ezeocha, special task force spokesman for Jos.
“We lost one policeman and we have made four arrests. I think we can use them to get more information and work on that,” he said. Police found four other explosive devices in Jos, which they deactivated, he added.
The White House condemned “this senseless violence and tragic loss of life on Christmas Day”.
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned the attacks and expressed his condolences “to the people of Nigeria and to the bereaved families”.
“The Secretary-General calls once again for an end to all acts of sectarian violence in the country and reiterates his firm conviction that no objective sought can justify this resort to violence,” a statement released by his office said.
