Nigerian police said worshippers on Sunday helped foil an attempt to bomb a church in the northern Bauchi State, a common site of clashes between Muslims and Christians. Bauchi State police commissioner Mohammed Abdulkadir Indabawa said an unidentified man masquerading as a worshipper left a laptop bag containing a remote- controlled homemade bomb in a Methodist church in Bauchi city. Churchgoers became suspicious when the man walked out leaving the bag on a bench. "Worshippers tried to stop the (would-be) attacker from leaving the church when they realised he had dropped the bag on a bench," Indabawa told AFP. "But he took to his heels and joined a motorcyclist waiting for him outside the church and escaped." A police bomb squad defused the explosive, which was a "contraption of aluminium shreds, ammonia fertiliser and mobile-phone batteries," he said. No arrests had been made. Sectarian unrest between predominant Muslims and Christian minorities is common in Bauchi and Jos, its neighbour in Nigeria's central Plateau State. Suspected members of an Islamist sect Boko Haram that launched an uprising in 2009 attacked a prison in Bauchi city last September, freeing more than 700 inmates. The group also claimed responsibility for a series of Christmas Eve bomb blasts, including in churches in the central city of Jos that killed dozens. May god help us in cucg
Posted: at 31-01-2011 07:00 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie
Micheall at 31-01-2011 07:45 AM (13 years ago) (m)
The same reason why i said we need to divide this nation call Nigeria!!
Posted: at 31-01-2011 07:45 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming