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1st LD: Another bomb attack hits bus station in northwestern Nigeria

Xinhua, February 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Another bomb attack hit a bus station in northwestern Nigeria's city of Kano on Tuesday, barely five hours after a similar incident occurred in a crowded bus station in the country's northeastern region, witnesses told Xinhua.

The blast was heard at the Kano Line Motor park near a newly- commissioned overhead Bridge in the northern state, said Naseer Kura, a journalist, who witnessed the attack.

It is still unclear if it was a suicide bomb attack, local people said. Endi