A suspected car bomb ripped through a crowded
entertainment spot in the north Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday, witnesses
said.
Four people were
killed, including a young girl, in the suicide car bomb attack, the Kano
State police commissioner said.
At about 2200
(2100 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where
we discovered a suicide bomber… five people, including the bomber, were
killed,” Adelere Shinaba told reporters, adding that the victims were “three
men and a girl of about 12″.
Shinaba said it
was too early to say who was responsible for the attack, which happened in the
busy Sabon Gari district of the city.
Locals also said
the blast was on a busy road lined with bars in the predominantly Christian
area of Sabon Gari, and the blast could be heard several kilometres (miles)
away, Channels television said 10 people had been killed.
The blast
happened at about 9:30 pm (2030 GMT) when the area was crowded with revellers
as well as street hawkers and traders. Witnesses claimed that a car was
left in the Middle Road area of Sabon Gari and its driver left on a motorbike.
The blast happened soon afterwards.
Sabon Gari, an area populated by Christians and
non-indigenes, has been the target of previous Boko Haram attacks; multiple
blasts in July 2013 killed 24 people. Three months earlier, 25 people were also
killed in the area by a suicide bombing of the bus station
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