Less than 24 hours after 34 persons were killed and 80 others were injured from a suicide bomb attack on a truck garage in Yola, Adamawa State, two bombs ripped through a popular phone market in Taruni Local Government Area of Kano State on Wednesday claiming 15 lives.
The explosions occurred when two female suicide bombers detonated bombs within and outside the market, injuring 53 persons.
Eyewitnesses said the first explosion occurred at the first gate of the market close to a generator and the second exploded at the second gate, which is the main entrance of the market.
The state Police Commissioner, Alhaji Muhammad Katsina, who visited the scene of the blasts, confirmed that 15 people were killed including the suicide bombers. He said 53 persons sustained injuries and were rushed to hospitals for treatment. According to him, the suicide bombers were brought into the market by a Sharon vehicle but detectives were working hard to arrest other female bombers. A team of the joint military task force was deployed in the area after the blasts and the market sealed off.
Another eyewitness, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, however, said he saw about 20 dead bodies evacuated from the scene of the blast, adding that bodies of those killed littered the roads in the market.
Last year, the same market was bombed resulting in the death of several persons. Reacting to the bomb attacks in Yola and Kano, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja asked Nigerians not to despair in the face of cowardly terror attacks in the two northern states.