More than 40 feared dead after bomb blasts in Nigeria

At least 30 people lost their lives and 67 others were injured in multiple bomb explosions that occurred at Dadin/Kowa and Dukku motor parks of Gombe State Wednesday, a Red Cross official has confirmed. This came a week after twin blasts killed 50 people at the city’s central market.

The death toll is likely to rise significantly, witnesses said.

Local residents blame extremist group Boko Haram for the recent attacks in Nigeria.

Separately, at least nine people were killed in the community of Pompomari, near the large town of Biu in Borno state, in a raid on Wednesday night by suspected Boko Haram militants, military and police sources said yesterday.

Many believe Boko Haram are the culprits of both this attack and the one that hit the area last week.

Details remain sketchy, and it is still unknown whether the blasts were suicide attacks. “The bodies are badly mutilated and we have several people injured”.

Previously the ban had only been in place in the country’s Far North region, after two suicide bomb attacks there earlier this month.

President Paul Biya has described the attacks as “cowardly and ignoble”.

(Vatican Radio) As many as fifty people have been killed in a series of bombings in Nigeria and Cameroon.

The group is still holding many women, girls and children captive, including 219 schoolgirls it kidnapped from a school in Chibok in April previous year.