Suicide bombs have killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in north-eastern Nigeria, according to officials.

Suicide bombers killed 21 people in attacks on three churches in Nigeria during Sunday services, exacerbating religious tensions in a West African nation that is almost evenly divided between Muslims and Christians.

Three suicide bomb attacks on churches rocked a northern Nigerian state yesterday, killing at least 21 people and wounding about 100.

At least 12 people were killed and 80 wounded in bomb attacks on three churches in Nigeria today.

The Briton and Italian kidnapped in Nigeria were abducted by a splinter cell of a radical Islamist sect and murdered before a failed commando rescue operation, the nation’s secret police said.