Bomb blasts rip through busy mosque in Nigeria, at least 100 dead
AP Photo/Muhammed GiginyuPolice officers stand by the debris following an explosion in a Mosque in Kano, Nigeria, Friday Nov. 28, 2014.
KANO, Nigeria– Explosions killed more than 100 people as they gathered for Friday prayers in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, a hospital nurse at the Murtala Mohammed General Hospital said.
The death toll may rise when bodies that were taken to other hospitals in northern Nigeria’s biggest city have been counted, said the nurse, Ibrahim Shehu. While no group claimed responsibility for the explosions, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out bomb and gun attacks in a five-year campaign to impose Islamic law in Africa’s biggest oil producer.
“We have counted about 109 dead bodies at the Murtala general hospital alone, apart from the ones at Nasarawa and Bamalli hospitals,” Ibrahim Shehu said today in an interview at Murtala Mohammed hospital.
Two explosions went off on the premises of the central mosque near the Emir’s palace in Kano followed by a third in the crowd of worshipers, Saminu Hassan, a witness to the blasts, said by phone.
The death toll may rise when bodies that were taken to other hospitals in northern Nigeria’s biggest city have been counted, said the nurse, Ibrahim Shehu. While no group claimed responsibility for the explosions, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out bomb and gun attacks in a five-year campaign to impose Islamic law in Africa’s biggest oil producer.
“We have counted about 109 dead bodies at the Murtala general hospital alone, apart from the ones at Nasarawa and Bamalli hospitals,” Ibrahim Shehu said today in an interview at Murtala Mohammed hospital.
Two explosions went off on the premises of the central mosque near the Emir’s palace in Kano followed by a third in the crowd of worshipers, Saminu Hassan, a witness to the blasts, said by phone.
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