Two blasts in northeast Nigeria’s Potiskum kill 10

bomb attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Potiskum killed 10 people

 

Two bomb attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Potiskum killed 10 people, eyewitnesses and a hospital source said.

The first bomb exploded at around (1200 GMT) in the office of a group set up to defend local people against such attacks, eyewitnesses said. A suicide bomber detonated a device at an outdoor tea drinking area a few minutes later.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the bombings bear the hallmarks of attacks by Boko Haram, the militant group that has tried to set up an Islamic state in the northeast of Africa’s top oil exporter during a six-year insurgency.