Bomb Blast Reported In Kaduna State.15 Feared Dead.

A bomb explosion has been reported in Kaduna within Murtala Square by Alkali Road, Ungwar Sarki in Kaduna state.

Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, a prominent Islamic cleric is said to have been the target of the bomb blast. Premium Times reported that a witness, Hassan Mohammed, said that the bomb which was concealed in a red Volkswagen golf car parked by the road side, was detonated as the cleric’s convoy drove past.

So far at least 15 persons have been reportedly killed by the blast.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Islamist militant group Boko Haram has been staging attacks, especially with explosives, outside its northeastern heartlands in the past three months." (click here to read more from Reuters)

Source Nigerian Bulletin.
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