A suicide bomber has detonated a bomb in a Church in Nigeria's North Eastern Gombe city, blowing himself up and injuring several others.
The bomb exploded outside the evangelist church in Gombe state, witnesses and a rescue officials confirmed.
"There was an explosion outside the ECWA church this morning. A suicide bomber who was restrained from getting into the church blew himself up," said Abubakar Yakubu, who heads the Nigeria Red Cross in Gombe.
"Luckily no one was killed but some people were mildly injured."
A witness said the man arrived during the church service and refused to park his motorcycle outside a security barrier set up by church volunteers.
"He insisted on riding through the barrier," said Dahiru Badamasi.
"It was while he was arguing with the volunteers that his suicide belt exploded."
Another witness heard an explosion and rushed outside.
In the run up to the 2015 elections in Nigeria amids growing calls by stakeholders that election be held in volatile Boko Haram prone states, attacks in North eastern Nigeria have increased in recent weeks.
Wednesday, a female suicide bomber was killed as she tried to enter a military barracks in Gombe on Wednesday.
Seven others died in a bus explosion same Wednesday in a village close to Potiskum, in Yobe state.
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