The security source and witness Abubakar Adamu, a mechanic who
narrowly avoided being blown up himself, said the blast set several
buses on fire at the Marabi-Mubi junction, in a part of the country
plagued by violence linked to the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
“There were bodies everywhere on the ground,” Adamu said.
The location is about 30 km (20 miles) west of Mubi, a town near the
Cameroon border seized last month by Boko Haram militants fighting to
carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria. It has since
been recaptured.
Nigerian authorities, who rarely remark on security developments in
the troubled northeast, did not immediately respond to requests for
comment.
There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall
on Boko Haram, whose campaign to create an Islamic caliphate governed
by sharia law has killed thousands since 2009.
Continuing insecurity is a headache for President Goodluck Jonathan
ahead of February 2015 polls in which he is seeking a second elected
term in office. He has asked parliament for approval to extend an
18-month-old state of emergency in the northeast.
Two female suicide bombers killed at least 44 people on Tuesday in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, medical officials said.
Friday 28 November 2014
Bus stop blast kills 40 people in North East – source
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