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Jos Bomb Attack Leaves At Least 44 Dead, 47 Injured

A twin bomb attack in Jos has left at least 44 people dead and about 47 others injured.

Reports say that the first bomb went off at a restaurant opposite the Bauchi campus of the University of Jos, while the second one went off at the mosque near the Yan tyre market area of Dilimi junction along Bauchi road about 15 minutes after.

This attack comes less than five months after a bomb was detonated exactly where Sunday’s first bomb attack went off.

The insurgents were said to have started shooting sporadically to beat a barricade mounted by security men before launching the attack

Channels Television correspondent in Jos says that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is on a mop up exercise at the explosion scene.

NEMA’s North-Central Coordinator, Abdulsalam Mohammed, said that the injured are receiving treatment at various hospitals including the Plateau Specialist Hospital.

He assured the residents that normalcy had been restored to the area.

K Akintoye

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