JAJI, Nigeria — Two seminary students serving as pastors at a church bombed Nov. 25 in Jaji, in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, were among 11 Christians killed in a recent suicide attack, the school’s president Rueben Ishaya Chuga said.
Titus Sambo and Israel Olaleye, students at Baptist Theological Seminary in Kaduna, died in the dual bomb blasts at a military barracks church serving military personnel, their families and civilians in Jaji.
The bombers were suspected members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group, also suspected of bombing another Kaduna church Oct. 28 and killing seven Christians.
The Nov. 25 attack came as the congregation was leaving the morning service. Officials said the perpetrators parked a car loaded with explosives on church grounds. The car bomb detonated 10 minutes after a bomb-laden bus crashed into the church building and exploded.
Brig. Gen. Bola Koleosho, spokesman of the military staff college, said in a press statement that 11 worshippers were killed and 30 others were injured, though Nigerian news portal Leadership reported sources as saying as many as 20 died in the 1,200-member church.
Share with others: