Nigeria: Five Persons Killed In A Bar Bomb Attack

At least five people have also been killed and 19 others seriously injured in a blast in Taraba state in north-east Nigeria. The explosion on Tuesday evening occurred at a bar in Iware, a busy commercial centre near the state capital, Jalingo. Police spokesman Abdullahi Usman said one suspected attacker had died, but it wasn’t also clear

whether he was a suicide bomber. Eyewitnesses said the explosive was inside a bag that was hidden at the bar. Iware is also a major market town where traders from different parts of the country buy and sell livestock and foodstuffs. In the 2012, three suicide bombers on some motorcycles rammed the convoy of a local police chief.

At least eleven people including the attackers died in the blast, which was blamed on Islamist militant group Boko Haram.Taraba state borders Adamawa state in the north-east and neighbouring Cameroon. It had previously been spared the insurgency plaguing Nigeria’s north-east.