JOS, Nigeria - a radical Islamic sect has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Eve bombings and Church attacks in Nigeria, at least 38 people killed and the Group threatens new attacks to avenge local violence against Muslims.
Fight religious has more than this year in the deeply divided region left dead 500 people where Jos. The authorities had already the Boko Haram group for some deaths Friday guilt.
Reuters people gather to pray in a mass grave for the victims of religious unrest in Nigeria's centre of Jos."We continue attacks on the disbelievers and their allies and those who help you with our", the group said. It goes through a longer name translated into English as: "Organization of the followers of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and master of Islam and holy wars".
Two bombs went close to a large market in Jos, where people last minute Christmas shopping Friday action. A third met a mainly Christian range of Jos, while the fourth close to a street exploded leads in the city main mosque. At least 32 of the blasts died, officials said.
On the same day two churches in the northern city of Maiduguri 320 km (520 km), at least six people kill attacked. Authorities said Baptist pastor and two members to prepare for a late - night were Carol service among the victims.
The radical Islamic sect was in 2009 was defeated have. Nigerian military crushed his mosque in concrete pieces and its leaders arrested and died in police custody. But now, a year later, again a massive prison break, officials say living in fear of the group, whose Mitglieder have murdered police and local guides and developed Maiduguri and the surrounding villages. Western diplomats ensure that the sect attention al Qaeda North Africa Branch's catch. It remains unclear what, if any, formal links al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has made with the sect.
Nigeria, a land of 150 million people, is almost evenly between Muslims in the North and predominantly Christian South split. The blasts occurred in central Nigeria, in the nation "middle belt", where dozens of races for control of fertile lands vie.
Violence over religious lines although broken more has often do with local political, economic and rights to grazing lands. The Government of Plateau State where Jos is the capital, is controlled by Christian politicians have prevented Muslims because, legally recognized as citizens. Many of the valuable Government has blocked jobs in a region where the tourism industry and tin mining in recent decades collapsed.
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