Suicide Bomber Kills Six At A RCCG Church In Potiskum, Yobe State

 
A suicide bomber has today killed six people
at a RCCG church on Sunday in Potiskum,
a town in northeast Nigeria hit by
suspected Boko Haram attacks in the
past, a Red Cross official and a
witness said.
“People were just going to the
church when the bomber entered,
otherwise the casualty figure would
have been higher,” said Red Cross
official Hassan Alhaji Muhammad,
who visited the scene of the blast on
the outskirts of Potiskum.
A hospital in Potiskum said it had
received the bodies.
Suspected Islamist militant gunmen
and bombers killed more than 200
people last week in a spate of
bloodletting that prompted renewed
outrage and calls for an
international meeting to coordinate
the offensive against Boko Haram.
French President Francois Hollande
said the Boko Haram threat was
getting stronger and that he was
ready to hold a summit, following
one in Paris in May 2014, to gather
the leaders of countries fighting the
insurgents.
New Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari is due to visit
his counterpart in Cameroon after
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
and meets U.S. President Barack
Obama on July 20, when the fight
against Boko Haram is likely to be
high on the agenda.
Potiskum is in Yobe state next to
Borno, a remote state which is Boko
Haram’s stronghold in Nigeria and
borders Cameroon, Chad and Niger.