A suicide blast in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has killed four people, police say.<\/p>\n
They say that the blast happened in a street with many bars and night spots.<\/p>\n
Witnesses say that the explosion was caused by a bomb in a car in the predominantly Christian area of Sabon Gari. The blast could be heard from several miles away.<\/p>\n
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out attacks in Kano state and other areas of northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n
“At about 22:00 (21:00 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered a suicide bomber… Five people, including the bomber, were killed,” Kano Police Commissioner Adelere Shinaba said.<\/p>\n
He said that the victims were “three men and a girl of about 12”.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Will Ross in Nigeria says that Sunday’s blast was so powerful that all that remains of the car is its engine.<\/p>\n
Kano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
In January 2012, about 150 people died there in a series of co-ordinated attacks by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
The group is fighting to overthrow the Nigeria government and create an Islamic state.<\/p>\n
The bombing comes as the Nigerian authorities continue the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
The abducted schoolgirls, who include Christians and Muslims, were seized on 14 April in the north-east Nigerian town of Chibok in Borno state.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram released a video last week showing more than 100 of the girls and offering an exchange for prisoners.<\/p>\n
African leaders meeting in Paris at the weekend agreed to wage “war” on Boko Haram, pledging to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.<\/p>\n
French President Francois Hollande called Boko Haram a “major threat to West and Central Africa”, and said it had links with al-Qaeda’s North-African arm and “other terrorist organisations”.<\/p>\n
The unrest in Nigeria has not just been confined to the north.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month a car bomb in the capital Abuja killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more.<\/p>\n
The explosion happened close to a bus station where at least 70 people died in a bomb blast on 14 April.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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