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May 19, 2014
The blast occurred in a street
with many restaurants and night club.
Eye witnesses
say that a bomb detonated in a car in the predominantly Christian area of Sabon
Gari. The blast was heard from several miles away.
Boko
Haram has carried out several attacks in Kano state and other areas of northern
Nigeria in recent years.
Kano
Police Commissioner Mr. Adelere Shinaba said. He mobilised his officers and men after the
incident to the scene where we discovered a suicide bomber... Five people,
including the bomber, were killed," "At about 22:00 (21:00 GMT),
He said that the victims were
"three men and a girl of about 12".
The
BBC's Will Ross in Nigeria says that Sunday's blast was so powerful that all
that remains of the car is its engine.
Kano is
the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.
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