38 killed in central Nigeria car bombing

A state emergency management official says 38 people were killed in a car bombing that struck a central Nigeria city.

Abubakar Zakari Adamu told The Associated Press that the figure includes a canvassing of local hospitals in Kaduna.

Adamu said others were seriously wounded by the blast.

The bomb exploded Sunday morning as churchgoers in the city on the dividing line between Nigeria's largely Christian south and Muslim north attended Easter services.

Both the United Kingdom and the United States warned its citizens that violence was possible in Nigeria this weekend. A radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram has been carrying out attacks across the country.

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