Update: Eight die in hospital in Kano mosque bombing

At least eight worshippers have died in hospital in the failed Kano mosque bombing.

The dead were among 16 others injured early Wednesday morning after a man attacked a mosque with a locally made explosive in Kano.

Four children were among the injured worshippers, although it was not clear if any of the children died.

The police said the suspect, a 38-year-old local resident, confessed that he attacked the mosque in Gadan village “purely in hostility following (a) prolonged family disagreement on inheritance sharing.”

Police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna said in a statement on Wednesday that the incident was not a terrorist attack.

The suspect was said to have invaded the mosque with “a locally prepared explosive and locked the worshippers inside the mosque, making it difficult for them to escape.

“Some children ran for their lives with fire all over them. We had to put water to quench it,” Hussaini Adamu, a resident, said.

However, the police immediately cordoned off the scene, rushing the injured to a hospital in the state capital.

“The disagreement (was) over sharing of inheritance of which those that (the attacker) alleged to have cheated on him were in the mosque at that moment and he did that for his voice to be heard,” the police statement said.