Worshippers foil Nigeria churchbomb attempt

Date: 31-01-2011 7:00 am (13 years ago) | Author: Taiye shehu Abdullahi
- at 31-01-2011 07:00 AM (13 years ago)
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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)
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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
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- waco at 31-01-2011 08:32 AM (13 years ago)
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Will they(Muslims) ever change?

Posted: at 31-01-2011 08:32 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- singsong at 31-01-2011 08:44 AM (13 years ago)
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na waoooo. Thank God they did not succeed.
Posted: at 31-01-2011 08:44 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie
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- MissyBarbie at 31-01-2011 08:49 AM (13 years ago)
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Na wa ooooooo
Posted: at 31-01-2011 08:49 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- Pointzero at 31-01-2011 08:55 AM (13 years ago)
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hia...................4 inside church........dis madness dnt get wings oohh

Posted: at 31-01-2011 08:55 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Treasure2 at 31-01-2011 08:56 AM (13 years ago)
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May God continue to protect his people.
Posted: at 31-01-2011 08:56 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- MissyBarbie at 31-01-2011 08:58 AM (13 years ago)
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Amem ooo my sis...how are you doing na?
Posted: at 31-01-2011 08:58 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- shaoyang at 31-01-2011 09:25 AM (13 years ago)
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Pharoh(Nigeria) let my people go!
Posted: at 31-01-2011 09:25 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- solojaro at 31-01-2011 09:28 AM (13 years ago)
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Thank God.
Posted: at 31-01-2011 09:28 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Treasure2 at 31-01-2011 10:19 AM (13 years ago)
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Quote from: MissyBarbie on 31-01-2011 08:58 AM
Amem ooo my sis...how are you doing na?
SWEETIE, AM GOOD AND YOU? HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND?
Posted: at 31-01-2011 10:19 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- MissyBarbie at 31-01-2011 10:20 AM (13 years ago)
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Gr8 fenx  Wink Wink Wink
Posted: at 31-01-2011 10:20 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- Treasure2 at 31-01-2011 10:22 AM (13 years ago)
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OK, ENJOY UR WEEK IN PEACE.
Posted: at 31-01-2011 10:22 AM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- MissyBarbie at 31-01-2011 01:02 PM (13 years ago)
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Aiight.. Wink
Posted: at 31-01-2011 01:02 PM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- do4sure at 31-01-2011 03:29 PM (13 years ago)
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These useless by there malfunctioned reasoning doesn't allow the nation to move forward.They will not miss their portion in hell.
Posted: at 31-01-2011 03:29 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- sobeit at 31-01-2011 06:29 PM (13 years ago)
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o boy!! see taliban inside naija,.cheiii
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Posted: at 31-01-2011 06:29 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- meczytimber at 13-09-2011 11:56 PM (12 years ago)
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hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
God help us

Posted: at 13-09-2011 11:56 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- jar84 at 5-06-2012 07:10 AM (11 years ago)
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 Sad
Posted: at 5-06-2012 07:10 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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