NEMA confirms 44 dead, 47 injured in twin bomb blasts in Jos

At least 44 people were killed in twin bomb blasts

in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the country’s
main relief agency said on Monday, after a bloody
week of violence blamed on Boko Haram.
“At the moment we have 44 dead bodies and 47
others injured from the scenes of the two attacks,”
said Mohammed Abdulsalam, from the National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Earlier, police in Plateau state, of which Jos is the
capital, said at least 18 people had lost their lives
in Sunday night’s attacks at a shopping complex
and near a popular mosque.
Discrepancies in death tolls are not unusual in
Nigeria.
The police, military and government authorities have
previously downplayed death tolls in the Boko
Haram insurgency.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for
the attacks but religiously divided Jos has been
targeted before by the Islamist militants.
Plateau, which falls on the dividing line between
Nigeria’s mainly Christian south and mostly Muslim
north, has also seen waves of sectarian violence
that has killed thousands over the last decade.
Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks in northern
Nigeria since the inauguration of President
Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, with a wave of
raids, explosions and suicide bombings.
With the latest attacks, more than 500 people have
been killed, according to AFP reporting.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up
inside a church in the city of Potiskum, in Yobe
state, northeast Nigeria, killing five worshippers.
Last week, Islamist militants fighters raided a
number of villages around the Lake Chad area,
killing more than 150 worshippers as they prayed in
mosques.

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