Nigerian Bombings Kill Almost 40 in Two Northeastern Cities
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At least 37 people were killed in bombings at a bus station and market in Nigeria’s northeastern cities of Gombe and Bauchi, according to the police and Red Cross.
The first explosives went off in a car at the Dukku motor park in Gombe, killing at least 20 people at about 11 a.m. yesterday, Abubakar Yakubu Gombe, the Red Cross secretary for Gombe state, said by phone. A second bombing hit Bauchi’s central market at about 5 p.m. Seventeen people have been confirmed dead and 25 injured, Inua Muhammad Bello, told reporters today. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.