Kano bomb was hidden in fridge in bus park; killed 1, wounded 8

The bomb used in the Kano blast was hidden in a refrigerator. It killed one and wounded eight at a crowded bus park in northern Nigeria's biggest city of Kano on Thursday, police said.

Ike Chuku, a local trader who witnessed the blast, told Reuters by telephone that emergency services had arrived to rescue the wounded from the New Road bus park in Sabon Gari, an area of the mostly Muslim northern city with a high population of Christian southerners.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Islamist group Boko Haram has repeatedly targeted Kano, historically a medieval Islamic caliphate and a hub for trade across the Sahara.
It is one of many targets well outside the group's main area of operations that has seen a surge in attacks as the militants radiate violence outwards from the northeast.



At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two suicide bombings in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna, one aimed at opposition leader and ex-president Muhammadu Buhari and another at a moderate Muslim cleric about to lead a crowd in prayer.

Kaduna state governor Mukhtar Yero on Thursday lifted a 24-hour curfew imposed on the state after the bombings.