An explosion shook a busy market in the north Nigerian city of Bauchi on Monday, engulfing it in flames and causing an unknown numbers of casualties, a Reuters witness said.
Police confirms to Channels Television that the explosion killed seven people and injured twenty-five others.
Large sections of the central market area were on fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air, he said. Medics were driving some wounded away in ambulances.
The explosion hit hours after a double bomb attack in the main city of neighbouring Gombe State killed at least 20 people and wounded twice as many.
The Spokesman for the Gombe State Police Command, Mr Fwaji Atajiri, however, confirmed that 19 people were killed in the bomb blast that rocked Dukku Motor Park located in the heart of Gombe town.
Mr Atajiri also said that 25 others are currently receiving treatment at the two government hospitals in Gombe town in north-east Nigeria.
On how the injured are currently being treated in view of the present nationwide strike by health workers in the country, the spokesman said “the senior staff at the two hospitals are doing a great job” in the rescue mission.
Mr Atajiri revealed that the bomb was concealed and brought into the park by a suspected terrorist.
