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At least 25 dead in Nigeria church blast - officials


    ABUJA (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed in a bomb attack on a church in a satellite town on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja on Sunday, emergency services said.

    "I cannot give an exact figure of casualties now. But we (National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA) came with 25 body bags and we have exhausted them all. So at this point we are talking of 25 bodies in those bags," said Slaku Lugard, a NEMA official.

    (Reporting by Tim Cocks Writing by Maria Golovnina)