Car Bomb at Bus Stop Kills Five in Northeast Nigeria

A car bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 15 others, witnesses said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. But Islamist group Boko Haram has been blamed for a string of bomb attacks in trhe region this year. Gombe has rarely been attacked. “It just happened, and our men and the security agencies are on the scene dealing with the fallout,” an emergency services official told...

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