Authorities in eastern Nigeria say a suicide bombing targeting a police official has killed 11 people.
Officials say a bomber on motorbike rammed right into a police convoy in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba state. Another 20 people were injured within the blast, however the police official was not harmed.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, which occurred near the state ministry of finance and police headquarters.
The attack comes an afternoon after gunmen in northern Nigeria killed no less than 15 people in an assault on a school theater used for church services.
Security officials said the gunmen threw small explosives into the positioning at Bayero University in Kano, then fired on worshippers as they ran outside.
One of the greater than 20 people wounded in Sunday's attack said the assault happened ahead of the service began.
"We were about to begin the mass, then we commence hearing gunshots, pah pah pah, and that i ducked down because i'm a retired soldier, and that i said i cannot run away to anywhere," he said.
A faculty member, Nasir Fagge, told VOA Hausa Service that security were increased on the school within the days before the attack in light of different deadly incidents in Kano.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which resembled others conducted by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.
The group claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on Thursday on the offices of Just today newspaper within the northern city of Kaduna and the capital, Abuja.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is a sin" inside the Hausa language, is attempting to show Nigeria into an Islamic state. Human Rights Watch says the gang has killed greater than 1,000 people since 2009.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has come under increasing domestic and international pressure to bring an end to the violence.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is divided between most of the people-Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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