A bomb blast has occurred at a busy meat market in Maiduguri in Nigeria’s north-east, killing at least 30 people.
Channels Television’s correspondent in Borno State confirmed the attack.
The bomb, said to have been concealed under a butcher’s table in the market, went off at around 1:00pm local time, killing shoppers and travellers, a military source said.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion, but the Boko Haram terrorist is suspected to have carried out the attack.
The attack comes days after two bomb attacks killed at least 30 people in the state.
Nigeria’s new President, Muhammadu Buhari, has vowed to crush the group which has killed thousands of people in the north-east, as they push for the establishment of an Islamic State.
Reuters quoted a paramedic, Lawal Kawu, as saying that 31 charred bodies had been evacuated to the teaching hospital in Maiduguri and several other people were brought in with severe injuries.
Witnesses said they heard a loud explosion.
“It shook our school building and I had to run away. I saw military vehicles with soldiers moving toward the area,” Abubakar Mohammed, a college student few meters away from the blast scene told Reuters.
The terrorist group has been chased out of Adamawa and Yobe States by military troops, but they are increasing attacks in Borno State.