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| Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Jos blasts kill scores | |
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| Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say. | Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say. |
| A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night. | A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night. |
| No-one has claimed responsibility but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate. | No-one has claimed responsibility but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate. |
| The blasts are the latest in the series of deadly attacks in recent days which have seen more than 200 people killed. | The blasts are the latest in the series of deadly attacks in recent days which have seen more than 200 people killed. |
| From the 44 dead, 23 were killed at the restaurant and 21 at the mosque, Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) says. | |
| There are also 47 people being treated for injuries, but emergency officials are still gathering information, so the figures may rise. | |
| The blast at the restaurant was the result of a bomb that had been planted, whereas the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber and that explosion was preceded by a gun attack, the BBC's Ishaq Khalid reports. | |
| Our correspondent says that many believe that the mosque's imam, who was preaching at the time, may have been the target. | |
| Sheikh Muhammad Sani Yahya Jingir has been preaching against Boko Haram since 2010 and has in the past survived an assassination attempt at his home. | |
| He also survived this attack. | |
| Jos has seen several attacks blamed on Boko Haram, including an incident in February when at least 15 died and in December last year when more than 30 people died. |