Bomb attacks on Christians in Nigeria and Kenya

Bloody Sunday for Christians in Nigeria and Kenya: A terrorist attack on a university in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are at least 20 people were killed. In the Catholic "Bayero University" in the morning, three bombs exploded while there just Sunday Mass was celebrated. In a subsequent stampede, according to police and doctors, many people were injured. In the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, threw a stranger a grenade into a Church. According to the Nigerian newspaper, half a dozen armed men broke through the morning in the auditorium, where Christian students tend to hold their religious services. The attack lasted half an hour , before soldiers Nigeria Joint Military Force could access the building, and were at least three explosions. The attackers threw explosives inside the room and sprayed from the outside people trying to leave the auditorium, as witnesses reported the incident to the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard . "The attack was one of the auditoriums, which is used by the Christian community for worship," said a spokesman for the Army. Soldiers had beaten back the attackers and cordoned off the building. The attackers drove up on motorcycles and threw firebombs into the hall and then fired on the people who fled the building, as security forces said. According to an eyewitness were gunshots and explosions, more than half an hour long. Boko Haram has committed in Kano in January its most serious attack to date. At that time, 186 people were killed. Nigeria has more than 160 million inhabitants the most populous country in Africa. The proportion of Christians and Muslims is largely offset, however, there are regional differences: Islam dominates the north, the Christian south. In Kenya, the end of March for two attacks on a Christian church and a restaurant in towns along the coast, a man killed and several others injured. Kenya is suffering increasingly from terrorist attacks since last year in Nairobi has sent troops into neighboring Somalia in order to fight the Islamist militia al-Shabaab.