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| Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Zaria bomb attack 'kills 20' | |
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| At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb attack in north-western Nigeria's Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa'i has said. | At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb attack in north-western Nigeria's Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa'i has said. |
| A suspected suicide bomber targeted civil servants at a government building in the city, witnesses said. | A suspected suicide bomber targeted civil servants at a government building in the city, witnesses said. |
| Emergency workers have rushed to the scene to help evacuate the wounded. | Emergency workers have rushed to the scene to help evacuate the wounded. |
| Militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which often targets northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks since President Muhammudu Buhari took office in May. | Militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which often targets northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks since President Muhammudu Buhari took office in May. |
| The group has not yet commented on the latest attack. | |
| Witnesses said workers had been queuing up seeking employment under Mr Buhari's administration when the bomb detonated in Zaria's Sabon Gari district. | |
| "I am sad that a terrorist bomb attack just killed 20 people in Sabon Gari Zaria," Mr El-Rufa'i said on his Twitter account. | |
| "We call on our citizens to be vigilant and avoid crowded places like markets, mosques, churches and motor parks in the next few weeks," he added. | |
| Mr El-Rufa'i, the governor of Kaduna state, said the government was working with the security agencies to end the wave of militant attacks in the country. | |
| On Monday, two bomb attacks in the central Nigerian city of Jos left at least 44 people dead. |