MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Military headquarters in Maiduguri, Nigeria, were targeted by multiple explosions including a suicide bombing and a car bomb detonation, army officials say.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, the Islamist group Boko Haram, translated as "Western education is forbidden," has been identified as perpetrating similar attacks in Maiduguri and other Nigerian cities, the BBC reported.
Maj. Gen Jack Nwaogbo, commander of the city's military taskforce, said both the Joint Military Taskforce and the State Security Service in central Maiduguri had been targeted and three of the attackers had died.
Riots have begun in Zonkwa in the northern state of Kaduna after unknown gunmen attacked churchgoers during a nighttime service killing two people and wounding 11.
A police spokesman said some of those shot in the latest attack on a congregation during a night vigil were in critical condition, the BBC said.
The attack occurred in Zonkwa in the restive state of Kaduna, which is divided along political, ethnic and religious lines and has had serious violence since April's elections in which Patrick Ibrahim Yokowa became the state's first Christian governor.
The BBC said some of the people attacked vowed revenge, as had Boko Haram, based in Borno state.
