A blast occurred around 3 this afternoon at New Road Motor in the Sabongari area, a predominantly Christian quarter of Kano city, according to police sources. The explosive was hidden in a table top fridge disguised as luggage
Details of casualties are still sketchy but eyewitnesses say scores were killed and many people injured.
According to information gathered, The bomb went off some minutes ago after a young man pushing a cart entered a busy [motor] park on New Road Sabon Gari," local resident Shukurat Olaiya, who was standing a few blocks away at the time of the blast.
"The cart pusher himself died, alongside many others," he said.
"The owner of the load was not there. He obviously gave the cart pusher the load containing the explosives and timed the bomb to go off just as he entered the motor park."
Some 50 people were killed in the same motor park last year in a similar bombing.
More details soon
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