No fewer than twenty people were confirmed killed in a bomb explosion
today inNew Road Motor Park in the predominantly christian
neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano. We learnt this information from an
anonymous military source.
This number is an increase in earlier reportedfigures. There are also
a number of injured persons who have been taken to various hospitals
around the city.
I saw three buses on fire. One of them was fully loaded with
passengers waiting to leave the station at the time of the blasts. At
the moment there at least 20 dead," said the rescue official who
requested anonymity.
Residents said the explosion occurred at a bus station in city of Kano
on Monday, causing panic and injured bystanders to flee the area.
"There was a huge blast at the New Road motor park," said area
mechanic Tunde Kazeem.
"The blast was followed by billows of black smoke and there was a lot
of confusion with people rushing out of the motor park, some of them
with blood on their clothes."
Kano is among the northern cities attacked repeatedly by Islamist
group Boko Haram, blamed for killing hundreds in Nigeria since 2009.
The station was attacked in January of last year in a blast which
wounded several peopleand which was blamed on Boko Haram, but itwas
not clear what caused the latest explosion.
The targeted station primarily services passengers heading to the
mostly Christian south of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
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