A blast hit Kano on Sunday, in a street with many bars and night spots.
Scores were feared dead in the explosion which witnesses quoted by the
AFP news agency said was caused by a suspected car bomb.
The blast took place in an area mostly inhabited by Christians from
southern Nigeria, the Reuters news agency reports.
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out attacks in Kano
State.
Witnesses quoted by AFP said that the blast could be heard from
several miles away and happened on a busy road lined with bars in the
predominantly Christian area of Sabon Gari.
Kano police spokesman, Musa Majiya, said it was too early to say if the
blast in the Sabon Gari or “foreign quarter” of the North’s biggest city had
caused any casualties.
But witness Abdul Dafar, who lives a block away, told Reuters he
saw at least four dead bodies after the explosion.
“I heard a loud blast. And there was a lot of smoke. Soldiers came in to
cordon off the place and ambulances were rushing people to hospital,” he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but blame is likely to
fall on Boko Haram, whose struggle against the Nigerian state has killed at
least 12,000 in the last five years.
The militants also operate in neighbouring Niger, Cameroon and Chad, and
President Goodluck Jonathan described them as West Africa’s Al-Qaeda on
Saturday in Paris, where regional leaders met France’s President Francois
Hollande to discuss how to tackle the growing threat posed by the group.
The Islamists grabbed world headlines with abduction of more than 200
schoolgirls a month ago from a remote village in the North-East. Britain, the
United States and France have pledged to help rescue them.
Boko Haram has frequently attacked Sabon Gari, whose liquor stores are
also a cause of friction with Kano’s Islamic police.
I can't believe there is no comment. It seems we are getting used to bomb blast gradually . God will erase this people from this earth . People who Derrick in shading blood.
ReplyDeletelook the fact remains that this bomb blast will continue as long as this country is not divided...this canibals called the hausa northerns will not stop the bombing until they get power and GEj is not going any wher till 2019..so unfortunately its bomb and bombs till 2019 or we divide the country before then.
ReplyDeletePDP is my number one suspect bcos it's been long the last time kano state experienced something of this nature,but the sunday's blast coming in less than 24/hrs after the pdp lost woefully in the just concluded saturday's local government elections.the former governor shekarau should be arrested immediately.
ReplyDeleteGood talk.
DeletePDP are set of desperate people. They are apparently aware that they are not needed in Kano , so they want to destabilize the state. God will punish shakarau and Jonathan his sponsor. PDP is dead and buried nationwide.
ReplyDeleteOfuchi jxt shut ur mouth if u dnt knw wat 2 say....I dnt knw if u hav anytin 2 do wit apc nd dia northern counterparts,always layin abusive words 2 southeners wen ur one of dem,plz shut ur mouth
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