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nigeria.png Bomb attacks were set during the Christmas Day in Nigeria targeting three distant churches. One of the targets had 27 reported casualties. According to the report, Islamist militants are trying to ignite sectarian civil war.

Boko Haram Islamist aims to impose sharia law across the country, claimed responsibility for the attacks, the second Christmas in a row the group has caused deadly bombings of churches. The same group has been blamed for the other two blasts in the north. Last year, the group said it was behind holiday bombings that left 90 fatalities.

St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Madala was full of worshipers when the bomb exploded just outside the church.Hours after the first bomb, blasts were reported at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church in the central, ethnically and religiously mixed town of Jos, and at a church in northern Yobe state at the town of Gadaka. Residents said many were injured but there was no immediate count of dead bodies. "Mass just ended and people were rushing out of the church and suddenly I heard a loud sound: 'Gbam!' Cars were in flames and bodies littered everywhere," Nnana Nwachukwu told Reuters. A suspected suicide-bomber, Victor Ebhaleme, rammed a car into the entrance of the State Security Service building in the northeastern city of Damaturu, killing four security officials, police said. Residents heard two loud explosions and gunfire in the town.

World's response to the Furious Attacks

Boko Haram - which in the Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria means "Western education is sinful" - is loosely modeled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, the Abuja-based Trust newspaper reported, citing a spokesman for the group, Abu Qaqa. The claim couldn’t be independently verified.

President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south who is struggling to contain the threat of Islamic militants, called the incidents "unfortunate" but said Boko Haram would "not be (around) forever."

The Vatican denounced the attacks, saying the church bombings were a sign of “cruelty and absurd blind hatred that shows no respect for human life.

The White House condemned "this senseless violence and tragic loss of life on Christmas Day." The Obama administration promised to help Nigeria find the people responsible for the wave of bombings in the oil-rich African nation. “We have been in contact with Nigerian officials about what appear to be terrorist acts and pledge to assist them in bringing those responsible to justice,” according to a statement by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned the attacks and expressed his condolences "to the people of Nigeria and to the bereaved families."

"The Secretary-General calls once again for an end to all acts of sectarian violence in the country and reiterates his firm conviction that no objective sought can justify this resort to violence," a statement released by his office said.

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