An explosion has rocked a beer joint in the Sabon Gari area
of Kano, Kano State.
The explosion has killed at least 13, with several injured
according to eyewitnesses. However, the Police said only four people (three men
and a girl) died.
Residents heard a loud explosion around 9: 30pm Nigerian
time.
Update
Confirming the explosion, Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba said a bomb placed in a car exploded too early as the bomber was likely targeting the restaurants and beer joints ahead of him on Gold Coast Street.
Minutes after the attack, security operatives arrived at the area and cordoned it off while
rescue workers conveyed the injured and dead to the hospital.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but
it has the imprints of the north-eastern Nigeria based Boko Haram sect, which
has carried similar attacks on beer joints in the past.
The most prominent of the sect’s attack on beer joints was
the 2011 New Year’s Eve bombing of the Mammy Market at Mogadishu Barracks in
Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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