Lagos: At least 12 people were killed and 20 others were injured in explosions near an army barrack in northern Nigeria on late Sunday night, officials said.
Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed that there are several casualties, though he did not give a specific number.
“Most victims were moved to hospitals and dead bodies were evacuated,” he said.
The emergency management agency has been mobilized “to contain the situation,” Shuaib added.
The blast happened at about 2000 local time (1900 GMT), official said. No group has so far said it carried out the blast.
Explosions rocked the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi hours after the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Meanwhile, another explosion rattled a beer hall in Zuba, on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital of Abuja. But, there were no serious injuries in that blast, with three victims taking themselves to a nearby hospital.
In recent weeks, the African nation has been rocked by a series of bombings thought to be engineered by Boko Haram group that has challenged Nigeria’s government.
Explosions in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno killed a few and wounded dozens in late April in the days leading up to national governorship elections in attacks that police described as attempts to intimidate voters who had picked Jonathan.
Northern Muslims in some areas charged that the presidential election was rigged. Armed protesters in the region took to the streets chanting the name of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition front-runner.
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