Series Of Blasts In Nigeria This Evening Kill At Least 25, Islamists Suspected

Hmmm! When will this END?

BBC Reports;

At least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, witnesses say.

Several buses were destroyed in the Sabon Gari area of the city, home to a large population of Christians from the south of the country.

Kano is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.

No group has said it carried out the blasts but Islamist militants from Boko Haram have attacked Kano several times.

One eye witness told the BBC’s Hausa service that he had seen 20 bodies after the blasts.

Soldiers cordoned off the area after the blasts.

In January 2012, around 150 people died in Kano in a series of co-ordinated attacks by Boko Haram.

Also on Monday, an audio tape emerged claiming to be from Boko Haram.

In it the group demanded the release of its members it says are being held in Nigeria and Cameroon in exchange for seven French nationals kidnapped in Cameroon last month.

Earlier this month, another militant Islamist organisation, Ansaru, claimed to have killed seven foreign hostages seized in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi in February.