A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in the midst of a crowded evangelical Christian church service and killed at least six people, witnesses said.
He further described that relief workers and security personnel had since cordoned off the site of the blast, which, the reporter said, appeared to have been caused by “explosives planted somewhere in the area”.
This was as a result of the recent suicide bombing that occurred at a church in Potiskum on Sunday and dual explosions in the central city of Jos in the early hours of Monday morning local time, which has left more than 200 dead.
Eyewitness Akaria Ahammed said: “When they started shooting people, people started running helter skelter for their lives”. The report says that the Army killed some 8,000 civilians during its campaign against the insurgent group, and accused several military leaders of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“I seriously believe he is up to the task and he is going to deal with them”, Abdullahi said of the Buhari’ camp’s ability to defeat the militants.
Plateau, which falls on the dividing line between Nigeria’s mainly Christian south and mostly Muslim north, has also seen waves of sectarian violence that has killed thousands over the last decade.
A statement from the office of President Muhammadu Buhari said that he strongly condemned “the resumption of attacks by terrorists on places of worship which are highly revered places of prayer and communion with God for most Nigerians”. Before the March presidential vote, his All Progressives Congress party put up billboards around the country that promised, “We will defeat Boko Haram”.
“As we have said before, the people of northern Nigeria deserve to live free from violence and from terror”.
The group is based in the northeast where it captured a large swath of territory past year; it has since been beaten back severely by multinational forces.
