JOS, Nigeria, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Nigerian military said two people were wounded in a bomb attack in a central Nigerian city, a source of U.N. concern.
Charles Ekeocha, a spokesman for a Nigerian task force in the central city of Jos, told Bloomberg News of twin bomb attacks in the city.
"Two people were wounded but no death was recorded," he was quoted as saying.
The attack on Jos followed last month's Boko Haram bombing of U.N. offices in Abuja. A report on Boko Haram from the International Crisis Group said that, while the group was aligning itself with al-Qaida, it was focusing on stoking religious tensions in Nigeria to create an Islamic state.
Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement last week, said ethnic and political divisions in and around Jos has led to a cycle of violence in the country. National and local leaders, he said, should take action to end the fighting by working on reconciliation.
The OHCHR said several dozen people were killed in recent clashes between Christian and Muslim youth in Nigeria.
Ethnic violence claimed 1,000 lives after Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, defeated Muslim challenger Gen. Muhammadu Buhari in April presidential elections.
