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KANO – A high calibre Improvised Explosive Device went off at the Kano textile market Wednesdayafternoon.

Eyewitnesses  told Vanguard that the  twin blast  went off simultaneously at Alarama shopping complex by Fillin Paki.

File: Residents look at a burnt motorcycles outside the central mosque in northern Nigeria's largest city of Kano on Novemer 29, 2014, a day after twin suicide blasts hit the mosque during weekly Friday prayers. At least 120 people were killed and 270 others wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers at the mosque, a week after the emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, of one of Nigeria's top Islamic leaders called on northerners to defend themselves against Boko Haram Islamists that have been carrying out deadly attacks and seizure of territory in the northeast. AFP PHOTO

File: Residents look at a burnt motorcycles outside the central mosque in Kano on November 29, 2014, a day after twin suicide blasts hit the mosque during weekly Friday prayers. AFP PHOTO

The number of casualties cannot be ascertained.

Details soon. 


Source: Vanguard

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