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.
“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.
Source:
Vanguard News
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