The Red Cross in Nigeria says that six people have been killed in central Nigeria by an angry crowd which took to the streets after a suicide bombing of a church. Will Ross reports from Lagos.
In the central Nigerian city of Jos, a suicide bomber drove a car as close as he could get to a church. It's thought that the explosion killed no one else, but at least 50 people were injured, several of them are in a critical condition. Angry young men then protested in the streets, setting fire to tires. The Red Cross says the demonstrators then killed six people. On the same morning, a church in the village of Tabra in northeast Nigeria was targeted. The police say five gunmen walked in as the service was
in full swing
. They opened fire on the
congregation
and the police report that one woman was killed and three people were wounded.
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