Forty four people died in the twin bombs that rocked the city of
Jos, Plateau state, Sunday night, a spokesman of the National Emergency
Management Agency said.
Abdussalam Mohammed, coordinator of NEMA in the city said 67
people were also wounded.
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The two bombs, which went off at separate places were blamed on
the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
One exploded at a crowded mosque and the second at an elite Muslim
restaurant. The wounded were being treated in hospitals, Mohammed said.
The explosion at the Yantaya Mosque came as leading cleric Sani
Yahaya of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia organization, which preaches peaceful
co-existence of all religions, was addressing a crowd during the Muslim holy
month of Ramadan, according to survivors.
Another bomb exploded at Shagalinku, a restaurant patronized by
state governors and other elite politicians seeking specialties from Nigeria’s
mainly Muslim north.
Jos has been a hotspot for violent religious confrontations and
has been targeted in the past by bomb blasts claimed by Boko Haram extremists
that have killed hundreds of people.
Sunday’s attacks are the latest in a string blamed on Boko Haram
that have killed more than 200 people over the past week in northeast Nigeria.
The extremists returned Sunday to northeastern villages attacked
three days earlier, killing nine villagers and burning down 32 churches and
about 300 homes, said Stephen Apagu, chairman of a vigilante self-defense group
in Borno state’s Askira-Uba local government area.
He said the vigilantes killed three militants.
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