A Bomb blast has occurred at a mosque along the popular Yan Kwali area of
the Maiduguri Monday Market in Borno State, Nigeria’s volatile north-east.
The explosion occurred after the first ‘Rakaat’ of the Friday prayer session.
Details of the incidence are still sketchy, but witnesses said unspecified
number of casualties were recorded.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Boko Haram
terrorist group is largely suspected.
The attack is coming just few hours after an earlier incidence that
claimed at least 11 lives along Gomari Airport Ward of Maiduguri, the
Borno State Capital.
The incidence has forced the State Government to cancel activities lined
up to commemorate the Democracy Day on Friday.
Counter-terrorism operations to chase the terrorists out of the oil-rich
nation’s north-east have been on for over five years.
Recent efforts have been concentrated on the Sambisa Forest stronghold of
the terrorists, with several camps destroyed and many women and children
held captive rescued.