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Story highlights The death toll from attacks in the city of Jos rises to 44, authorities say A teenage
suicide bomber dies after her explosive belt detonates in KanoA priest is reported to be among five
people killed in church attack in northeastern townThe heaviest death toll was in Jos, in central
Nigeria, where two deadly explosions struck late Sunday not far from each other.
One blast ripped through a restaurant in a shopping complex in an area popular with travelers and
where many Muslim families live. The restaurant was full of customers when the explosion went off,
witnesses and survivors said.
The other attack took place at a crowded mosque as a sermon for the holy month of Ramadan was
being delivered. Unidentified attackers opened fire outside with guns before launching a rocketpropelled grenade at the mosque, witnesses said.
Ado Aliyu, a survivor who was shot in the arm, told CNN that about five gunmen entered the crowd
and started shooting, setting off a stampede before the explosion struck.
At least 44 people were killed and 47 others wounded in the shooting and explosions, Mohammed
Abdussalam, an official at Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, said Monday.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks. But Boko Haram has been tied to violence in Jos in
the past, including an attack on a market in May 2014 that killed more than 100 people.
The city sits between the predominantly Christian and animist southern half of Nigeria and the
north, where the majority of the country's Muslims live.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called the earlier attacks "inhuman and barbaric"
and pledged that every last "Boko Haram bandit ... would be hunted down without mercy and
compromise."
Elected earlier this year, Buhari vowed to focus on the fight against the terrorist group, which has
pledged allegiance to ISIS. But so far, he has struggled to stop the heavy bloodshed in the northeast.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/06/africa/nigeria-violence/