JOS: Two explosions hit a bustling bus terminal and market frequented by thousands of people in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday afternoon, and police said there are an unknown number of casualties.
The blasts could be heard miles away, indicating they were sizable.
The cause was not immediately known, but the explosions come amid a bombing campaign by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network, the extremists threatening to sell nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls into slavery.
The girls were seized more than a month ago from a remote town in the northeast that is the traditional stronghold of the rebels who are fighting for a separate state. Half of Nigeria’s population of 170 million is Christian.
Jos is in Nigeria’s middle belt region in Plateau state, which divides the country into the predominantly Muslim north and Christian south.
Blasts hit central Nigerian city
Blasts hit central Nigerian city
