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| According to charity worker Mark Lipdo, stall owners in the market had reported a suspicious white van to police hours before the bombs went off, but nothing was done |
Second bomb detonated half hour after first in order to kill rescue workers
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| Second bomb kill rescue workers |
Witnesses at the scene report bodies and body parts laying in the road covered with grain which was packed around one of the bombs when it went off
He said authorities also had another warning of impending violence: a man with explosives strapped to his body was arrested on Saturday and told police that many militants had been ordered to plant bombs around churches and public areas in Jos.
Dozens of bodies and body parts were covered in grain that had been loaded in the second car bomb, witnesses said.
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| Second bomb detonated half hour after first in order to kill rescue worker |
Photographs showed a woman's body, legs blown off, on the edge of an inferno consuming other bodies, with a hand reaching out of the flames.
Another woman, unconscious, was being carried away in a wheelbarrow on a road strewn with glass shards
Tensions have been rising between Christians and Muslims in the city, in Nigeria's Middle Belt region that divides the country into the predominantly Muslim north and Christian south.
Boko Haram has claimed other recent bomb attacks, including two separate bomb blasts in April that killed more than 120 people and wounded more than 200 in Abuja, the nation's capital.
A suicide car bomber killed 25 people in northern Kano city on Monday. Police there detonated a second car bomb Monday.
They said both would have killed many people but the first exploded before it reached its target of restaurants and bars in the Christian quarter of the Muslim city.
President Goodluck Jonathan extended sympathies to affected families and promised a bigger force to fight the Islamists.
In a statement, the Nigerian government 'assures all Nigerians that 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 civilization.'
The government and military's failure to curtail the 5-year-old Islamic uprising, highlighted by the continuing mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls has caused national and international outrage.
Jonathan has been forced to accept help from several nations including Britain and the United States in the hunt for the girls, who were taken in northeast Nigeria, with threats to sell them into sexual slavery.
According to charity worker Mark Lipdo, stall owners in the market had reported a suspicious white van to police hours before the bombs went off, but nothing was done
Another woman, unconscious, was being carried away in a wheelbarrow on a road strewn with glass shards
Tensions have been rising between Christians and Muslims in the city, in Nigeria's Middle Belt region that divides the country into the predominantly Muslim north and Christian south.
Boko Haram has claimed other recent bomb attacks, including two separate bomb blasts in April that killed more than 120 people and wounded more than 200 in Abuja, the nation's capital.
A suicide car bomber killed 25 people in northern Kano city on Monday. Police there detonated a second car bomb Monday.
They said both would have killed many people but the first exploded before it reached its target of restaurants and bars in the Christian quarter of the Muslim city.
President Goodluck Jonathan extended sympathies to affected families and promised a bigger force to fight the Islamists.
In a statement, the Nigerian government 'assures all Nigerians that 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 civilization.'
The government and military's failure to curtail the 5-year-old Islamic uprising, highlighted by the continuing mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls has caused national and international outrage.
Jonathan has been forced to accept help from several nations including Britain and the United States in the hunt for the girls, who were taken in northeast Nigeria, with threats to sell them into sexual slavery.
According to charity worker Mark Lipdo, stall owners in the market had reported a suspicious white van to police hours before the bombs went off, but nothing was done
