10 killed in Nigeria market bombing
Abuja: At least 10 people were killed Monday in twin bomb blasts at a market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state, media reported.The two bombs went off at mid-morning
Abuja: At least 10 people were killed Monday in twin bomb blasts at a market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state, media reported.
The two bombs went off at mid-morning in the same place where another two explosions had killed 35 people last week in an attack carried out by female suicide bombers.
The attack was likely carried out by suicide bombers, a witness said.
"Of course we heard the explosions somewhere in town, but it is still too early to say what actually happened and what damage was caused," Gideon Jubrin, a spokesperson for the Borno State Police Command, told the daily Premium Times.
A military source was quoted as saying the scene of the blast had been cordoned off.
The radical Islamist terror group Boko Haram, a name that translated from the local dialect means "non-Islamic education is a sin", has killed more than 3,000 people so far this year, according to the Nigerian government.