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Friday 28 November 2014

Death toll from Nigerian mosque bomb blast continues to rise


Police officers stand near wreckage at a scene of multiple bombings at Kano Central Mosque November 28, 2014. Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the central mosque in north Nigeria's biggest city Kano, killing at least 35 people on Friday, witnesses and police said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. REUTERS/Stringer (NIGERIA (CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)


Bomb squad experts and security personnel inspecting bike wreckages at a scene of multiple bombings at the Kano Central Mosque November 28, 2014. Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the central mosque in north Nigeria's biggest city Kano, killing at least 35 people on Friday, witnesses and police said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. REUTERS/Stringer (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)

Multiple explosions tore through the central mosque in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city today.
At least 81 people were killed in the bomb attack, sources from two hospitals visited by Reuters said. Police earlier put the figure at 35.

Around 150 others sustained various degrees of injuries in the blasts.

According to witnesses, heavy smoke could be seen billowing in the sky from a long distance away.
Immediately after the blasts, hundreds of angry youths took to the streets to riot, throwing stones and sticks and shouting at security officials.

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