A night-time explosion blamed on Boko Haram extremists (Wahhabism) killed 32 people and wounded 80 Tuesday at a truck stop in northeastern Nigeria, an emergency official said.
At least 32 people were killed and about 80 wounded victims were evacuated to hospitals, coordinator Sa’ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency told the AP.
Most victims were vendors and passers-by, said Deputy Superintendent Othman Abubakar, the police spokesman for Adamawa state.
Nigeria’s military has reported foiling several suicide bombers recently and killing and capturing insurgents as it destroys Boko Haram camps in air raids and ground attacks.
Tuesday night’s blast breaks a three-week hiatus in bombings after a string of suicide attacks culminated in twin explosions in mosques in two northeastern cities that killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on Oct. 23.
In mars 2015 Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Daesh. Some 20,000 people have been killed in Nigeria in the last 6-year.
