Boko Haram bomb hit the house of prostitute(sex worker)
►Boko Haram Blast happened overnight at Nigerian house of prostitute which has left 11 Sex worker dead and 38 wounded
►Blast happened overnight in a chalet in Bauchi in the north east of Nigeria
►Islamist militant group Boko Haram thought to be behind the attack
►One suspect arrested after explosion, which killed 11 and wounded 28 others
►It is the latest in a series of blasts wusedhich have claimed hundreds of lives
►It comes after police found and def bomb in Nigeria's second city, Kano
►Explosion on Wednesday, in shopping area of capital Abuja, killed 21 people
►Boko Haram Blast happened overnight at Nigerian house of prostitute which has left 11 Sex worker dead and 38 wounded
►Blast happened overnight in a chalet in Bauchi in the north east of Nigeria
►Islamist militant group Boko Haram thought to be behind the attack
►One suspect arrested after explosion, which killed 11 and wounded 28 others
►It is the latest in a series of blasts wusedhich have claimed hundreds of lives
►It comes after police found and def bomb in Nigeria's second city, Kano
►Explosion on Wednesday, in shopping area of capital Abuja, killed 21 people
Islamist militants are thought to have been behind a massive bomb blast at a Nigerian brothel that has killed 11 people and wounded 28 more.
The explosion happened overnight in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi with suspicion already falling on Boko Haram.
The group has targeted several cities across the north and central areas of the country in recent months, claiming hundreds of lives.
The brothel in Bauchi, Nigeria was destroyed in the explosion, which claimed 11 lives and wounded 28 others
One suspect has already been arrested following the most recent blast in the People's Hotel brothel, according to Bauchi state police.
A military operation in the northeast to counter the rebellion has triggered a string of reprisal attacks on officials and civilians.
Boko Haram's targets often include places it considers sinful according to its austere brand of Sunni Islam, such as bars, schools or churches.
The insurgents say they are fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, biggest economy and leading energy producer.
Bauchi state, like neighbouring Jos, lies on Nigeria's volatile 'Middle Belt', where its largely Christian south and Muslim north meet.
The region has been less frequently attacked by Boko Haram than its heartland in the remote northeast.
But the militants seem keen to extend their reach beyond Borno state, where military operations against them have been focused.
A bomb in an upmarket shopping district of the capital Abuja killed 21 people on Wednesday, the third attack on the capital in three months
In Nigeria's second-biggest city of Kano, police acting on a tip-off said they had found and defused a bomb consisting of 13 cylinders of explosives next to the Jumat Praying Ground late on Friday.
'The high-grade explosives were loaded into a rickety red (Toyota) Starlet,' Kano police commissioner Alhaji Adenrele Shinaba told journalists at a news conference.
'They were primed to explode on worshippers.'
Insurgents have killed many thousands since launching an uprising in 2009, and see all those who do not share their views as enemies.
President Goodluck Jonathan visited the scene of the Abuja blast on Friday and said Nigeria had entered one of the darkest phases of its history.
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok in April made world headlines and elicited offers of help from Western powers to get them freed, although global public interest is now waning.
Jonathan's administration has been bruised by criticism of its failure to contain the insurgency or protect civilians, especially in the volatile northeast.
'I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts to find the girls kidnapped in April,' Jonathan wrote in the Washington Post on Thursday, saying he was concerned his critics would equate his silence with 'inaction or even weakness'.
'We have not stopped and will not stop until the girls are returned home,' he wrote.
The explosion happened overnight in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi with suspicion already falling on Boko Haram.
The group has targeted several cities across the north and central areas of the country in recent months, claiming hundreds of lives.
The brothel in Bauchi, Nigeria was destroyed in the explosion, which claimed 11 lives and wounded 28 others
One suspect has already been arrested following the most recent blast in the People's Hotel brothel, according to Bauchi state police.
A military operation in the northeast to counter the rebellion has triggered a string of reprisal attacks on officials and civilians.
Boko Haram's targets often include places it considers sinful according to its austere brand of Sunni Islam, such as bars, schools or churches.
The insurgents say they are fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, biggest economy and leading energy producer.
Bauchi state, like neighbouring Jos, lies on Nigeria's volatile 'Middle Belt', where its largely Christian south and Muslim north meet.
The region has been less frequently attacked by Boko Haram than its heartland in the remote northeast.
But the militants seem keen to extend their reach beyond Borno state, where military operations against them have been focused.
A bomb in an upmarket shopping district of the capital Abuja killed 21 people on Wednesday, the third attack on the capital in three months
In Nigeria's second-biggest city of Kano, police acting on a tip-off said they had found and defused a bomb consisting of 13 cylinders of explosives next to the Jumat Praying Ground late on Friday.
'The high-grade explosives were loaded into a rickety red (Toyota) Starlet,' Kano police commissioner Alhaji Adenrele Shinaba told journalists at a news conference.
'They were primed to explode on worshippers.'
Insurgents have killed many thousands since launching an uprising in 2009, and see all those who do not share their views as enemies.
President Goodluck Jonathan visited the scene of the Abuja blast on Friday and said Nigeria had entered one of the darkest phases of its history.
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok in April made world headlines and elicited offers of help from Western powers to get them freed, although global public interest is now waning.
Jonathan's administration has been bruised by criticism of its failure to contain the insurgency or protect civilians, especially in the volatile northeast.
'I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts to find the girls kidnapped in April,' Jonathan wrote in the Washington Post on Thursday, saying he was concerned his critics would equate his silence with 'inaction or even weakness'.
'We have not stopped and will not stop until the girls are returned home,' he wrote.
