Northern Nigeria Blasts

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  Blast Hits Mobile Phone Market in Kano, Northeast Nigeria: Traders

  A large blast ripped through a busy mobile phone market in Nigeria's biggest northern city, Kano today, two traders told AFP, a day after more than 30 were killed in the northeast city of Yola.

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  Female Suicide Bomber Kills 19 at Northern Nigeria Market

  A blast set off by a female suicide bomber tore through a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing 19 people and wounding 47, the emergency response agency said.

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  At Least 15 Dead After Blast at Market in Northern Nigeria: Police

  A blast set off by a female suicide bomber tore through a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu today, killing at least 15 people, a police spokesman said.

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  Death Toll Rises to 37 After Blasts in Nigerian City of Gombe

  The death toll from multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday has risen to 37, with 105 others injured, a Red Cross official said on Thursday.

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  20 Killed in Zaria, Nigeria Bomb Attack: State Governor

  At least 20 people were killed in a bomb blast in the city of Zaria, northern Nigeria, today, a regional governor said.

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  Blasts Hit 2 Nigeria Bus Stations, at Least 27 Dead

  Two blasts rocked bus stations in embattled northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people, as relentless attacks persist less than five weeks from general elections.

• Bomb Blast Kills Five at Bus Station in North Nigeria

  A bomb exploded at a bus station in northern Nigeria's Bauchi state late on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 12, police said.

• Blast Rocks Bus Station in North Nigerian City of Kano: Witnesses

  A blast ripped through a bus station in Kano, northern Nigeria, as passengers boarded buses out of the city, witnesses said.

• Second Blast Rocks Nigeria's Kaduna City: Police

  A second explosion rocked a crowded market area in northern Nigeria's Kaduna city today, police said, after a suicide bomber targeting the convoy of a prominent cleric killed at least 25 people.

• Blast in Northern Nigeria Kills 10: Police

  An explosion in the red light district of northern Nigeria's Bauchi city has killed 10 people and injured 14 others, police said Saturday.

• Boko Haram Attacks Three Nigerian Villages, 48 People Killed

  Boko Haram assaulted three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 48 people, residents said Wednesday, hours after twin bombings claimed at least 118 lives in this central city in an attack the government blamed on the Islamic extremists.

• Blasts at bus park in north Nigeria's Kano kill 25

  Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano killed at least 25 people on Monday in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government, a Reuters reporter who counted the bodies said.

• 36 dead in Nigeria church attacks, rioting

  Multiple suicide attacks on churches in northern Nigeria and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims killed at least 36 people on Sunday, officials said.

• Eleven killed in suicide blast in Nigeria

  At least eleven people were killed and 26 others were injured in a suicide attack on a police convoy in eastern Nigeria on Monday. The latest attack comes a day after gunmen attacked Christian worship services Sunday at a university campus and a church in northern Nigeria, killing at least 21 people.

• Newspaper offices bombed in Nigeria; 6 killed

  Bomb blasts targeting newspaper offices in Nigeria's capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna on Thursday killed at least six people in the first such attacks targeting the country's news media.