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Boko Haram Attacks On Churches Spark Reprisals

June 18 2012

Nigeria

Dozens have been killed in coordinated suicide attacks on three churches in northern Nigeria, reports This Day (Nigeria).

The Boko Haram Islamic sect claimed responsibility for three separate attacks on Sunday in Kaduna and Zaria, reported the Osun Defender.

Early unofficial casualty figures indicated that around 30 people were killed and more than 90 others wounded.

In at least two instances, the attackers blew themselves up at the gates of the churches when they were...

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