{"id":36022,"date":"2014-07-31T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=36022"},"modified":"2014-07-31T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:48:01","slug":"nigeria-kano-blast-boko-haram-blamed-for-six-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=36022","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Kano blast: Boko Haram blamed for six deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria&#8217;s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say.<\/p>\n<p>The female bomber is reported to have blown herself up as students queued to check their names on an admission list.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the government says a 10-year-old girl with a suicide belt has been arrested in a neighbouring state.<\/p>\n<p>Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The college bombing was the fifth attack in Kano since Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Huge crowd&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least three of the attacks were carried out by female bombers, in what BBC Nigeria analyst Aliyu Tanko describes as a new trend in the insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the group is recruiting female bombers or forcing kidnapped girls to carry out suicide missions, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram is holding more than 200 girls that its gunmen abducted during a raid in April on a boarding school in Chibok town in the northern state of Borno.<\/p>\n<p>The bomber who carried out the latest attack was hidden in the crowd at the Kano State Polytechnic, a witness, Isyaku Adamu, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a huge crowd and people were jostling to go through the lists,&#8221; Mr Adamu is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The bomber detonated an &#8220;improvised explosive device&#8221;, killing six people, government spokesman Mike Omeri confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Yusuf Ibrahim Yakasai reports from Kano that bodies were strewn around the blast site.<\/p>\n<p>About seven people are said to have been wounded in the explosion.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People look at damage in a market area after a bomb explosion in Ajilari-Gomari near Maiduguri's airport, Borno State, 2 March 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/74831000\/jpg\/_74831865_021364416-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/>Boko Haram has intensified its insurgency in northern and central Nigeria<\/div>\n<p>At least 19 people lost their lives in the series of bombings in Kano in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, Mr Omeri said three suspected militants were arrested in Katsina state on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects included one male and two girls, aged 18 and 10, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces found the younger girl had been &#8220;strapped with an explosive belt&#8221;, Mr Omeri added.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2013, Nigeria&#8217;s President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency in the northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, vowing to crush the insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>However the militants have stepped up attacks, killing more than 2,000 civilians this year, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria&#8217;s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say. 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