Bomb blast hits market in Nigeria's Borno State, 16 dead
IN MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A bomb blast hit a cattle market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late on Saturday, with as many as 16 people dead, hospital and military sources said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants.
IN MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A bomb blast hit a cattle market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late on Saturday, with as many as 16 people dead, hospital and military sources said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants.
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people and displaced some 1.5 million
in an insurgency to establish an Islamic caliphate in the northeast of
Nigeria but appears to have lost most of the territory it seized to
government counter-offensives this year.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which
followed two weekend bombings that killed at least 30 people and also
appeared to be the work of Boko Haram.
"At about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday they brought casualties from the blast
scene ...16 bodies were deposited with 24 injured," Lawal Kawu, a
paramedic at the teaching hospital in Maiduguri, told Reuters.
He said some of the injured were also in critical condition.
Zakariya Shettima, who lives nearby and arrived on the scene after the
blast in the small community of Musari, on the outskirts of Maiduguri
city, said he saw blood and body parts and that it had left a crater and
destroyed several shops in the market.