A suicide bombing (http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/05/africa/nigeria-church-bombing/index.html) in a church in the Nigerian village of Potiskum on Sunday that killed the priest and four congregants marked the end of a particularly violent week during which 200 people were killed in the African nation.
No one has claimed responsibility for the church blast, but it is consistent with past attacks attributed to militant Islamist group Boko Haram, CNN reports.
Potiskum has often been the focus of Boko Haram violence during the first half of 2015; in January, three people were killed and 43 hurt during a bombing in a market, and the next week another attack left four dead and 48 hurt at a bus station. Another bus station was attacked in February, killing 17, and in May the town's College of Administrative and Business Studies was targeted.
This past week has seen what new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari described as a "heinous" burst of violence, the BBC reports (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33401810), including suicide bombings in two small Borno villages, the killing of 97 people near Lake Chad, and 48 men shot dead in two villages near Monguno.
Amnesty International estimates that more than 17,000 people have been killed since 2009 in violence involving Boko Haram.
[BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33401810)]
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