At least 31 people were killed when
an explosion ripped through a busy market in Yola, an emergency official said
on Friday.
Nigerian police and civilians
inspect the site of a suicide attack at a busy cattle market in the
northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on June 2, 2015. At least 13 people
were killed in the attack, the Red Cross and civilian vigilantes battling Boko
Haram said. The blast in the Borno state capital happened as traders were
wrapping up business for the day. AFP PHOTO
“So far, we have 31 dead victims and
38 people in hospital receiving treatment” as a result of Thursday’s blast, the
National Emergency Management Agency’s coordinator in the city Sa’ad Bello told
AFP.
“Some whose injuries were not severe
were discharged,” he added.
The blast happened at about 7:40 pm
at the Jimeta Main Market in the Adamawa state capital, just as traders were
finishing business for the evening.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility but fingers will likely be pointed at Boko Haram, which has
carried out several attacks in the north of the state in recent weeks.
Yola has also suffered attacks, but
not in recent years. It had come to be seen as a relative safe haven for
hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their homes because of the
violence.
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