At least 40 have been killed in an explosion at a football field in Mubi, northeast Nigeria, AFP reports citing a police source.
“There has been a bomb explosion at a football field this evening and so far more than 40 people have been killed,” an officer in the town said.
A military source told Reuters that the number of those dead and injured is not clear at this time. He added that several bodies were recovered and the wounded are still being evacuated.
“We don’t have a precise death toll for you while work is still going on to remove the corpses,” Usman Abubakar, police spokesman for Adamawa state, told Reuters.
A witness told the news agency that the blast happened in the evening. The sources said the victims had been watching a televised match.
No group has claimed responsibility, though Boko Haram has staged attacks in the area in the past. The same group abducted over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria on April 14 and is still holding them captive.
A suicide bomber failed to hit an open-air football viewing in the central city of Jos last weekend, as his car blew up before his target was reached. However, three people still died in the blast.
The week before, a suicide bombing killed 118 people in the central city of Jos, while another two bombs on the outskirts of Abuja killed 95 in April.
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