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A roadside bomb tore through a bus station at Marabi-Mubi junction in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, killing 40 people including five soldiers, Reuters reports.
The security source and witness on the scene Abubakar Adamu, a mechanic who narrowly avoided being blown up himself, said the blast set several buses on fire, "there were bodies everywhere on the ground," Adamu said.
The location is about 30 km (20 miles) west of Mubi, a town near the Cameroon border seized last month by Boko Haram militants fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria. It has since been recaptured.
There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall on Boko Haram, whose campaign to create an Islamic caliphate governed by sharia law has killed thousands since 2009.
#Mubi #Nigeria
The security source and witness on the scene Abubakar Adamu, a mechanic who narrowly avoided being blown up himself, said the blast set several buses on fire, "there were bodies everywhere on the ground," Adamu said.
The location is about 30 km (20 miles) west of Mubi, a town near the Cameroon border seized last month by Boko Haram militants fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria. It has since been recaptured.
There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall on Boko Haram, whose campaign to create an Islamic caliphate governed by sharia law has killed thousands since 2009.
#Mubi #Nigeria