UPDATES: Explosion Hits Mosque In Sapele, Delta State

More facts have emerged on the alleged bomb attack in Warri that was reported earlier today, actually it was in Sapele.

Attackers threw a bomb into an Arabic school in Sapele, Delta State wounding six children and an adult, police said Wednesday, after Christmas attacks sparked fears of sectarian clashes.

It was not clear who was behind the bomb attack at the Arabic school in Sapele in the oil-producing Niger Delta region.

While scores of explosions have occurred in the delta in recent years, they have mainly targeted oil installations and have not taken on a sectarian dimension.

"A locally made low-capacity explosive was thrown into an Arabic school in Sapele at 10:00 pm yesterday," said state police spokesman, Charles Mouka.

"It was thrown from an unidentified moving car ... Six children and one adult were wounded."

The children are between five and eight years old, he said, and had been at the school, which has about 50 students, for evening Arabic and Koranic lessons.

Christian leaders have urged authorities to take action against spiralling violence blamed on Boko Haram, with deep frustration over their seeming inability to stop attacks despite heavy-handed military crackdowns.