Police in Nigeria discovered ten more car bombs on Tuesday in Kano, an area already reeling from multiple bombings on Friday. Spokesman for Voice of the Martyrs USA, Todd Nettleton, says the level of sophistication is what's drawing their concern. ‘This was a very serious attack. It also shows the growing ability of Boko Haram to coordinate attacks and to maximize the body count.’ Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect, claimed the bomb blasts that killed 256 people. The attacks
came shortly after Muslim prayers in that beleaguered nation's second-largest city. This time instead of churches, it was police headquarters and other police stations, a secret police building, and immigration offices that were targeted. According to a video released by the group's leader, the attacks were a response to a refusal by the authorities to release the sect's members from custody. This could amount to starting a civil war and destabilizing the government at the same time.
Pray: against these ongoing conflicts that a solution will be found that will bring ongoing unity and peace. (Jn.17:23)