Multiple explosions have rocked
Kano, the biggest city in
northern Nigeria.
The BBC's Yusuf Yakasai in the
city says there is pandemonium
with people running all over the
place.
One of the blasts is believed to be
at the police headquarters and
an AP reporter says a large plume
of smoke can be seen over the
city.
The situation and extent of the
damage is not yet clear. Islamist
militants have been behind a
recent campaign of violence in
the mainly Muslim north.
A journalist for the AFP news
agency reports hearing what
sounded like about 20
explosions coming from two
neighbourhoods in the city.
The Islamist Boko Haram group,
whose name means "Western
education is forbidden", wants to
establish Sharia (Islamic law) in
Nigeria and started to stage
drive-by shootings in 2010 on
government targets in its base in
the north-eastern city of
Maiduguri.
It has stepped up its attacks in
2011, attacking the headquarters
of the police and the UN in the
capital, Abuja.
In recent weeks, southerners,
who are mostly Christians or
animists, living in the north have
been the targets of deadly
attacks.
Nigeria's Kano
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