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Suicide Bomber Attacks Packed Nigerian Church

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A suicide bomber attacked a packed evangelical Christian church service in Nigeria, killing at least six people and wounding many others.

The attack happened Sunday at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in northeast Nigeria.

Garba Manu, a witness to the incident, said the bomber arrived on a motorized rickshaw.

"As soon as he entered a loud explosion ripped through the church which is under construction," he told AFP. "I saw him walking in and he didn't raise any suspicion."

It's one of many attacks lately by Boko Haram in Nigeria using female suicide bombers.

Overall, the Islamic terrorist group has killed more than 200 people in the last week, including a hundred men and boys praying in mosques.

In a statement Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari's office condemned "the resumption of attacks by terrorists on places of worship which are highly revered places of prayer and communion with God for most Nigerians."

"Nigerians are a very religious people and President Buhari believes that the terrorists who wantonly attack our places of worship have willfully declared war on all that we value, and must therefore be confronted with all our might and collective resolve," the statement said.

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