An explosion in the red light district of Bauchi city
has killed 10 people and injured 14 others, police said
Saturday.
The cause of the late Friday blast was not
immediately clear, but Boko Haram Islamists have
attacked Bauchi repeatedly during their five-year
uprising aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in
the north.
Bauchi state police spokesman Mohammed Haruna
said the targeted building in the Bayan Gari
neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city was
widely known as a brothel.
“Ten people were confirmed dead, while 14 others
sustained various degrees of injury,” Haruna said,
adding that the explosion went off at roughly 10:00
pm (2100 GMT).
“The entire area has been cordoned off and (the)
scene secured,” Haruna said. Bomb attacks on
targets which Boko Haram has branded sinful –
including bars, churches and schools teaching a
Western curriculum – have formed a major part of
the insurgency.
Nigeria has estimated that more than 10,000 people
have been killed since the conflict began in 2009.
The violence has escalated in recent months, with
more than 2,000 deaths recorded since the start
of the year.
The capital Abuja has been hit with three separate
bomb attacks since mid-April, most recently on
Wednesday when 24 people were killed in a blast at
a popular shopping plaza in the heart of the city.
Police had initially given a death toll of 21 for the
attack, but the health ministry revised those
figures upwards on Saturday.
In Kano, the largest city in the mainly Muslim north,
a bomb planted in the parking lot of a public health
college killed eight people on Monday.
The Islamist extremists have received
unprecedented international attention in recent
weeks following their April 14 abduction of more
than 200 teenage girls from the town of Chibok in
the northeast.
The gruesome mass abduction has drawn
condemnation from governments and prominent
people worldwide and offers of military help from
major world powers to boost Nigeria’s counter-
insurgency effort.
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Spokesman of the Bauchi State Police Command, Mr. Haruna Mohammed, also confirmed news of the attack.

He said the entire building had been cordoned off, and the scene secured while investigations has commenced to ascertain the cause, even though no one has been arrested yet. The corpses of the bombing victims have been deposited at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, while 14 persons who sustained injuries are also receiving treatment there.

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