AGENCY REPORTS
— June 1, 2014
A bomb blast targeting a television
viewing centre for football in northeast
Nigeria killed an unknown number of
people on Sunday, a police spokesman
said.
A military source said several bodies
had been recovered from the site of the
evening bombing in the town of Mubi in
Adamawa state.
“We don’t have a precise death toll for
you while work is still going on to
remove the corpses,” said police
spokesman for Adamawa state Usman
Abubakar.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility. Islamist militant group
Boko Haram, whose struggle for an
Islamic state is concentrated in the
northeast, would be the prime suspect.
The group has set off several bombs
across north and central Nigeria in the
past two months.
Last weekend, a suicide bomber set out
to strike an open-air viewing of a
football match in the central city of Jos,
but his car blew up before reaching the
target, killing three people.
A suicide bombing the week before in
Jos killed 118 people, and two bombs
on the outskirts of Abuja in April killed
95 between them.
The group is still holding more than 200
schoolgirls that it abducted on April 14.
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