Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have blown up a market and a police station in Nyanya, Kuje areas of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital.
The insurgents struck Friday evening, killing a yet unknown number of people and wounding even more.
A female suicide bomber was said to be on her way to bomb a police station in Kuje when the explosives went off, killing her instantly and injuring passers-by.
It was learnt that the twin blasts at Nyanya went off around 9.45pm at the roadside market popularly known as yankuje.
Sources said that the explosion occurred close to the spot where an explosion killed over 70 people on April 14 and on May 1, 2014.
A resident of the area, Lambert Tyem, explained that he had just passed the scene when he heard two loud explosions which sent everyone running helter-skelter.
“I just passed the roadside market and was sitting in front of my house when we heard two loud explosions. We rushed to the scene and discovered that the blast had killed many people and injured many others.
“Soldiers came and cordoned off the scene; I don’t know the casualty figure, but it seems to be high because many ambulances were coming to evacuate the dead and the injured to the hospital.”
The police could not be reached for comment as the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Manza Anjuguri did not respond to several calls to his phone.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has deployed its rescue teams in the evacuation of the victims to various hospitals n Abuja.
The explosions which occured almost simultaneously have resulted in a number of deaths and injuries but the rescue operations coordinated by NEMA is still ongoing.
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