The death toll from a suicide bombing at a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Yola has risen to 45. The bombing rocked a busy market earlier this week. There’s still no word on who carried out the attack, but most blame militant group Boko Haram. The group has more recently been changing its tactics to suicide attacks again. Now that’s following the army’s victories against the group. Many have been expressing concern over Boko Haram’s change in tactics.
The device, which an eyewitness said was planted in a three-wheeled motorized scooter inside the market in Adamawa state, was detonated around 2000 London time, a few minutes after a female suicide killed two people at a checkpoint in Maiduguri.
The bombing is the latest attack in a series of explosions in the last few days that has killed around 80 people, following the inauguration of new President Muhammadu Buhari last week.
At the start of the year Boko Haram controlled a swathe of territory around the size of Belgium, but the military says the group has been pushed back to the Sambisa forest in recent weeks, a claim which the group denied in a video aired on social media on Tuesday.
Buhari, who visited his counterparts in Niger and Chad on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss the group, has vowed to defeat the militant Islamists.
