Bomb Blast In Kaduna Leaves Many Injured

Several people have been injured, some critically, after a
bomb exploded in a suburb of Kaduna metropolis in
Kaduna State.
An eye witness said the blast occurred at about 8:30pm
local time on Tuesday in the Asikolaye area.
The number of victims is yet to be ascertained.
Kaduna Commissioner of Police, Umar Shehu, told
Channels Television that the attack was suspected to have
been carried out by members of a terrorist group, Boko
Haram.
Meanwhile, the number of deaths in the Maiduguri market
attack that occurred around 8:30am on Tuesday has risen
to a little over 18.
Sources at the State Specialist Hospital confirmed to
Channels Television that more than 18 bodies were
brought to the morgue with over 20 people critically
wounded.
The defence ministry said in a tweet that an “Improvised
Explosive Device” went off in “a van loaded with charcoal”
and that the Monday Market area had been cordoned off.
And in southwest Nigeria, an improvised bomb went off in
Ile Ife, in Osun State.
The device was said to have exploded behind a house not
far from the family compound of a serving commissioner.
No casualty was reported but the house where the
explosion occurred was seriously damaged.