Suicide bomber kills five, wounds 98 in Nigeria church


Victims of a bomb attack wait for treatment at Garkuwan hospital in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna October 28, 2012. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least three people and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more, witnesses and police said.REUTERS/Stringer

KADUNA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least five people, wounding nearly 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more, officials said.

The bomber drove a jeep right inside the packed St Rita's church, in the Malali area of Kaduna, a volatile ethnically and religiously mixed city, in the morning.

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