Multiple blasts rock city in northeast Nigeria

AP

19 May 2011

Multiple blasts rock city in northeast Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple blasts have rocked a city in Nigeria's restive northeast where a radical Muslim sect is accused of a rash of targeted killings, authorities said Thursday.

A spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said that the three blasts appear to have targeted police and military property between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in the city of Maiduguri in Borno state.

Yushau Shuaib said the agency was mobilizing response workers to come to the aid of people in three areas of the city. He said people were injured, but he did not say how many or if anyone had died.