20 killed as blast rocks market in Nigeria
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A bomb in a van carrying charcoal exploded in a busy market in northeast Nigeria yesterday, killing at least 20 people in the latest suspected attack by Islamist militants, witnesses said.
The blast from the vehicle bomb wrecked cars and taxis that were unloading passengers and wares on a road adjoining the market in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. But in recent months, the Islamist group Boko Haram has embarrassed President Goodluck Jonathan’s government with a spate of bombings and spectacular raids, mostly in northeast Nigeria, including the mid-April abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls.
The military said earlier yesterday that it had arrested a number of suspected Boko Haram collaborators, including a Maiduguri businessman it said was involved in the abduction of the schoolgirls.
Boko Haram has also struck Abuja, the capital of Africa’s biggest economy, with three bombings in three months.
Nigeria’s defense headquarters said in a statement on its Twitter account that “a van loaded with charcoal and IED exploded” in Maiduguri’s Monday Market yesterday. IED means an improvised explosive device.
Musa Sumail, a local human rights activist in Maiduguri who reports on the violence there, said he counted 20 bodies at the scene of the market explosion.
The military said in a statement that the businessman it had arrested had helped the Islamist militant group plan several attacks, including the killing of a traditional ruler, the Emir of Gwoza.
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