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    April 30, 2012

Suicide Bombing Kills 5 in Eastern Nigeria

   VOA News
   Police anti-bomb officers stand on the burnt engine of the Jeep used by
   the suicide bomber that ravaged ThisDay Newspapers rocked by bomb
   explosions killing two security men, the suicide bomber and injuring
   five of the company's support staff, April 26, 2
   Photo: AFP
   Police anti-bomb officers stand on the burnt engine of the Jeep used by
   the suicide bomber that ravaged ThisDay Newspapers rocked by bomb
   explosions killing two security men, the suicide bomber and injuring
   five of the company's support staff, April 26, 2012.

   Authorities in eastern Nigeria say a suicide bombing targeting a police
   official has killed at least five people.
   Officials said the explosion Monday in Jalingo, the capital of the
   largely peaceful Taraba state, was triggered near the state ministry of
   finance and police headquarters. The police official was not harmed.
   The attack comes a day after gunmen in northern Nigeria killed at least
   15 people in an assault on a university theater used for church
   services.
   Security officials said the gunmen threw small explosives into the site
   at Bayero University in Kano on Sunday, then fired on worshippers as
   they ran outside.
   A faculty member at the university, Dr. Nasir Fagge, says the killings
   happened at two locations at the school, and that security had been
   increased in the days leading up to the attack in light of other deadly
   incidents in the city.
   He also said three professors were among those killed.
   One of at least 22 people wounded in the Sunday's attack described the
   assault as coming just before service began.
   Authorities said the attackers fled before security officers arrived,
   prompting police to cordon off the area.
   No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which resembled
   others carried out by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.
   The group claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on Thursday at the
   offices of This Day newspaper in the northern city of Kaduna and the
   capital, Abuja.
   Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is a sin" in the Hausa
   language, is trying to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state. It has
   killed more than 1,000 people since 2009.
   Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been under increasing
   international pressure to bring an end to the violence.
   Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is split between the
   majority-Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south.

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