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| Nigerian city of Jos hit by two deadly explosions | Nigerian city of Jos hit by two deadly explosions |
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| Two explosions in the main business district of the central Nigerian city of Jos killed 10 people on Tuesday, according to police. | |
| A Reuters reporter saw 10 bodies at the scene of the blasts in Terminus, a city centre area made up of shops, offices and a market. | |
| The city's police commissioner confirmed the death toll of 10, with several injured taken to hospital. | |
| President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the blasts, calling the perpetrators "cruel and evil". | |
| "The government remains fully committed to winning the war against terror, and this administration will not be cowed by the atrocities of enemies of human progress and civilisation," he said in a statement. | |
| There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosions, but the Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has set off bombs across the country in its brutal campaign to establish a caliphate in northern Nigeria, is likely to be a prime suspect. | There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosions, but the Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has set off bombs across the country in its brutal campaign to establish a caliphate in northern Nigeria, is likely to be a prime suspect. |
| Boko Haram has made world headlines recently following its abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls a month ago from a remote village in the north-east. Britain, the US and France have pledged to help rescue them. | Boko Haram has made world headlines recently following its abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls a month ago from a remote village in the north-east. Britain, the US and France have pledged to help rescue them. |
| Jos has been relatively free of attacks by the group, but it claimed responsibility for a bomb in a church and two other bombs on Christmas Day 2011. | |
| The city is in the heart of Nigeria's volatile Middle Belt, where the country's largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north meet. | The city is in the heart of Nigeria's volatile Middle Belt, where the country's largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north meet. |
| The latest blasts occurred 15 minutes apart in the afternoon, burning several shops to the ground, shattering windows and littering the road with rubble. | |
| "There was a loud bang that shook my whole house. Then smoke was rising," said local resident Veronica Samson. "There were bodies in the streets and people rushing injured to hospital in their cars." | "There was a loud bang that shook my whole house. Then smoke was rising," said local resident Veronica Samson. "There were bodies in the streets and people rushing injured to hospital in their cars." |
| Boko Haram has stepped up its use of bomb attacks, including two in the capital Abuja last month. A suicide car bomber also killed five people in the northern city of Kano on Sunday evening, in an area mostly inhabited by southern Christians. | Boko Haram has stepped up its use of bomb attacks, including two in the capital Abuja last month. A suicide car bomber also killed five people in the northern city of Kano on Sunday evening, in an area mostly inhabited by southern Christians. |