Bomb blast in northeast Nigeria bus station killed 40 people including five army personnels

YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A roadside bomb tore through a bus station near a busy junction in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, killing 40 people including five soldiers, witnesses and a security source on the scene said.

The security source and witness Abubakar Adamu, a mechanic who narrowly avoided being blown up himself, said the blast set several buses on fire at the Marabi-Mubi junction, in a part of the country plagued by violence linked to the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.

"There were bodies everywhere on the ground," Adamu said.

The location is about 30 km (20 miles) west of Mubi, a town near the Cameroon border seized last month by Boko Haram militants fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria. It has since been recaptured.

Nigerian authorities, who rarely remark on security developments in the troubled northeast, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall on Boko Haram, whose campaign to create an Islamic caliphate governed by sharia law has killed thousands since 2009.

Continuing insecurity is a headache for President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of February 2015 polls in which he is seeking a second elected term in office. He has asked parliament for approval to extend an 18-month-old state of emergency in the northeast.

Two female suicide bombers killed at least 44 people on Tuesday in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, medical officials said.

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It is well. May the souls of the departed rest in peace.

To imagine few years ago we all thought and joked that Nigerians love life hence, suicide bombing ain't our thing. Alas, it has become a norm. If our leaders have come to accept this as a norm and as a platform to play politics what are the masses been used as collateral damage doing? Sit on the internet and type RIP like yours truly? Let US all as a people unite and fight our common two enemies- Boko harem and our politicians.

it's only God that can deliver Nigeria from the hands of the terrorists.
may the dead RIP.

Pls let this better not be true..

God, come and heal Land Nigeria.

Some peeps will flood here with GEJ till 2019

Naija which way forward?
The earlier we stop involving politics/parties to it the better for us.......no peace for the wicked

again?? i hope these people wont flush the whole north where re the hunters? .

God pls help us in hard times like ths.... Keep Our Brothers n Sisters safe in North..

Chubhie:
To imagine few years ago we all thought and joked that Nigerians love life hence, suicide bombing ain't our thing. Alas, it has become a norm. If our leaders have come to accept this as a norm and as a platform to play politics what are the masses been used as collateral damage doing? Sit on the internet and type RIP like yours truly? Let US all as a people unite and fight our common two enemies- Boko harem and our politicians.

There is no place to unite. Muslim world is on fire hence the killing and maiming will not stop tomorrow. Its not all about politics, there is religious ideology

xule20:
Some peeps will flood here with GEJ till 2019

Naija which way forward?
The earlier we stop involving politics/parties to it the better for us.......no peace for the wicked

What north is passing through is self inflicted calamity. Only God can deliver them. The worst is yet to happen

gratiaeo:

There is no place to unite. Muslim world is on fire hence the killing and maiming will not stop tomorrow. Its not all about politics, there is religious ideology

I still hold the view that a political solution is key to ending Boko harem.

It is pathetic and sadden how these insane people continue there incessant killings for no just cause.

They forgot, there is a hereafter after all these.


May God Almighty have mercy on the poor innocent souls. ameen!

May God help us

and protect us from BH


Now that they've stolen more explosives from a cement factory recently

Negative news all the time

Fabdedon:
all dis blast de make frontpage..mah rush book space

chei! Bros, na weytin u get to talk bi this?

khattab02:
chei! Bros, na weytin u get to talk bi this?

am sorry tho but its now a normal story wadelse do u want me to say?

Chubhie:
To imagine few years ago we all thought and joked that Nigerians love life hence, suicide bombing ain't our thing. Alas, it has become a norm. If our leaders have come to accept this as a norm and as a platform to play politics what are the masses been used as collateral damage doing? Sit on the internet and type RIP like yours truly? Let US all as a people unite and fight our common two enemies- Boko harem and our politicians.

why won't suicide bombing turn to be our thing,my people are blinded by false religion! . . Reasons why ppl turn atheists daily

God will strengthen us to overcome this BH brouhaha

soo bad

Nawah oooo, dats sad. I really miss military rule, dats d best way to counter dese useless guys

Even if the entire north bomb each other, it won't change my mindset in fucking that girl in agbado this December

Brb

Some dey die, some dey loot,some dey dance some dey collect salary, some dey........ man of God I rest ma case

RIP to the dead

RIP to the dead..
Nigeria our dear country was never like this, now bomb blasts everyday. God will deliver us ijn. Hit 'LIKE' if you know that Nigeria will be better one day without Boko Haram

bastien:
Brb

Charles4075:
Brb

seunwen2:
FP

born2fuck:
.

See them.

Leaders of tomorrow...

Not again



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May God Save Our country Nigeria and its People...Amen.