At least five people were killed and eight were injured on Sunday in a bomb attack on a Catholic church in a mainly Christian area of Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s north, police said.
The attack came shortly after the end of mass, police spokesman Frank Mba told AFP: “We suspect an IED (improvised explosive device) that was thrown from across the road” at the Saint Charles Catholic church in Kano’s Sabon Gari district.