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Unijos students are scared to go to school after a twin blast was reported.
JOS, NIGERIA – Two blasts hit the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday evening.
One was reported at a restaurant and another targeting a Muslim cleric who disowned militant group Boko Haram, several witnesses said.
The police's Emmanuel Abuh confirmed there had been two attacks in Jos, but had no further details immediately.
“I saw people running out crying, some with bloodstains,” said resident Bashir Abdullahi, describing the scene after he said a suicide bomber ran into the crowded restaurant.
“I believe many lives were lost.”
The second attack targeted cleric Sani Yahaya Jingir as he was preaching, witnesses said.
Gunmen started shooting sporadically and then there was a loud blast, they said.
“We saw two or three vehicles coming from different directions and we started hearing gunshots from all angles and then a very loud bang, like a bomb being thrown into the mosque,” said witness Abubakar Shehu.
There was no official word on casualties from the two attacks but reports but it at 50.
A Reuters witness at a hospital in Jos said 16 bodies had been brought in.
The bomb which exploded in Jos, Plateau state, central Nigeria, in the midst of a gathering of muslims listening to some sermons on Islam.
The ceremony called Tafsir was holding at the Yantaya area of the city, which had witnessed terrorists attacks in the past.
The number of casualties is not known yet.
The second blast was targeting a Muslim cleric who has disowned Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the past, several sources said.
Plateau State police spokesman Emmanuel Abuh confirmed there had been two attacks in Jos.
A suicide bomber killed six people at a church in northeast Nigeria earlier on Sunday at the end of a week in which suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed more than 200 people.
Our correspondent who visited the scene observed that people were in a mourning mood and the vigilante in the area had mounted road blocks.
It is also observed that no Uj student residing at village hostel was among the victims.The special adviser to the Governor of village hostel on media and publicity Chukwugozie Ekweozor briefed Uj echo correspondents this morning. He stated that the Governor took a small team and moved from compound to compound to ensure that students were accounted for and no student so far is missing. The Deputy Dean of the School is expected to visit the hostel later today.
Kendrick Gozie Reporting for Itsmyschoolgist
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