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Monday 06 Jul 2015 - 16:50 Makkah mean time-19-9-1436
Jos bomb blasts (Google image)
Jos (IINA) – At least 44 people were killed in twin bomb blasts in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the emergency services said Monday, after a wave of mass casualty attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants.
AFP reported that Sunday's blasts happened within minutes of each other at a shopping complex and near a mosque in the religiously divided capital of Plateau state, which the rebels have targeted before.
"At the moment we have 44 dead bodies and 47 others injured from the scenes of the two attacks," Mohammed Abdulsalam, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told AFP.
The second attack targeted the packed Shagalinku restaurant in a shopping complex on the Bauchi Road, which is popular with travellers from the northeast.
Local resident Mohammed Shafi'i, who is a regular at the restaurant, said the whole neighbourhood shook from the blast and he counted 25 bodies, including four waitresses.
Sunday's bombings took the death toll from raids, explosions and suicide attacks to 267 this month alone and to 524 since Muhammadu Buhari became president on May 29, according to an AFP count.
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