Christian youths burned this gas station in retaliation for a bomb attack at Shalom Church in the northern Kaduna state on Sunday. Bomb blasts struck three churches there.
(Victor Ulasi/AFP/Getty Images)
Church blasts in Nigeria kill 21; 100 are injured
Christian youths burned this gas station in retaliation for a bomb attack at Shalom Church in the northern Kaduna state on Sunday. Bomb blasts struck three churches there.
(Victor Ulasi/AFP/Getty Images)
Associated Press
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June 18, 2012
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Three suicide bomb attacks on churches rocked a northern Nigerian state Sunday, killing at least 21 people and wounding about 100, officials said, prompting protests in a state that has previously been strained by religious tensions. The first two blasts occurred within minutes of each other and targeted two churches in the city of Zaria. A third blast hit a church in the city of Kaduna about half an hour later.
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