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Market blast in Nigeria’s northeast
The death toll from a suicide bombing at a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Yola rose to 45 on Friday, authorities said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Bomb attacks have resurged since the inauguration of newly elected President Muhammadu Buhari last week, with 80 people killed in a series of attacks over the past few days.
Boko Haram has waged a six-year insurgency to try to set up a “caliphate” in the northeast of Africa’s biggest oil exporting country, but government counter-offensives this year have retaken much of the territory held by the jihadists.
Boko Haram denied any such battlefield reverses in a video aired on social media on Tuesday.
Buhari visited his counterparts in Niger and Chad earlier this week to discuss strategies against Boko Haram.
