Nigeria Suicide Bombing: 8 Injured In Blast Outside Gombe Church During New Year’s Mass - from TRUNEWS

A suicide bombing outside a church in Gombe, Nigeria Thursday injured eight people who attended a New Year’s mass, witnesses said. The bomber, identified as male, rode a motorcycle up to a barricade outside the church and detonated his explosives, CNN reports.

“This morning while people were in church for the New Year worship, a suicide attacker rode on a motorcycle trying to gain entrance to the premises of the church. When he was stopped at the gates by church guards … he blew himself up and injured eight people,” a Red Cross official told Reuters.

The suicide bomber argued with individuals who manned the barricade — set up to prevent attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram — before carrying out the attack…

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