2 female suicide bombers hit Kano mobile phone market; 13 feared dead

Two female suicide bombers, Wednesday afternoon, attacked the Farm Centre, a popular mobile phone market in Kano, Kano State, with 13 reported fatal casualties.

The explosion which was said to have happened at about past 3pm, Wednesday, follows a similar suicide bomb attack at another popular vegetable market in the Jimeta district of Yola, the Adamawa state capital, Tuesday night, which killed 32 people.

Several people have reportedly been rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment with no official casualty figure released by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack, but militant Islamist group Boko Haram has previously attacked Kano.

Two blasts were said to have hit the market in the afternoon with an unconfirmed 13 fatalities.

Residents of the northern commercial city say one of the bombs went off inside the market, called Farm Centre, and the other outside.

It would be recalled that only Tuesday, a night-time suicide bomber killed 32 people and wounded 80 at a popular market in Yola, Adamawa.

The explosion occurred at a fruit and vegetable market beside a main road in the Jimeta district of Yola, the Adamawa’s state capital around 8pm.

The terror attack has been linked to Boko Haram extremists.

Tuesday night’s blast breaks a three-week hiatus in bombings after a string of suicide attacks culminated in twin explosions in mosques in two north-eastern cities that killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on October 23.

One of the mosques attacked was in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, where the insurgents struck again.

It was the third suicide bombing in as many months in a city overflowing with some of the 2.3 million refugees driven from their homes by the extremist Islamic uprising.

“At least 32 people were killed and about 80 wounded victims were evacuated to nearby hospitals after the blast,” coordinator Sa’ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed.

Most victims were vendors and passers-by, said Deputy Superintendent Othman Abubakar, the police spokesman for Adamawa state.

Nigeria’s military has reported foiling several suicide bombers recently, and killing and capturing insurgents as it destroys Boko Haram camps in both air raids and ground attacks.

However, President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent Jimeta bomb blast, describing it as ‘callous’, just as he also condoled with the families of victims of the terror attack.

‘The enemies of humanity will never win. Hand in hand, we will rid our land of terrorism,’ President Buhari said in a tweet via his Twitter handle, @Mbuhari, Tuesday night.

“Pres @Mbuhari extends sincere condolences to the families of the victims of tonight’s callous attacks on Yola.”