Delta, December 29: A homemade bomb was thrown into a madrasa in Delta State in southern Nigeria, the police said, wounding seven people and escalating tensions between Muslims and Christians after several church bombings across the nation.
Six of the wounded were children younger than 9. They were learning the Quran at the Islamic seminary, or madrasa.
The attack on Tuesday night followed the Christmas Day bombings of churches and other targets by the Islamist group Boko Haram that killed 32 people and seemed aimed at igniting sectarian strife.
-Agencies