No fewer than 11 persons died as a result of the bomb blasts at a church in the premises of the Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna, Kaduna State on Sunday.
The blasts, at St. Andrew’s Protestant Church, occurred while a service was on.
It equally left over 30 persons injured.
It was gathered that the bombs did not go off at once.
While worshippers were struggling to get out of the church after the first blast, another bomb reportedly went off, leading to chaos.
The spokesman of the Nigerian Army in the CSC, Brigadier General Bola Koleosho, confirmed the casualty figure to the AFP.
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