Wednesday’s attack comes after Tuesday’s blast in Yola, which killed 32 people and wounded 80.
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“There is no doubt that the arrests of the suspected terrorists are important milestones which show the synergy of effort in the fight against terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria among the security agencies and the public”, he said.
A man walks past blood stains and rubble after twin suicide blasts at Kantin Kwari textile market in northern Nigeria’s commercial city of Kano on December 10, 2014.
Together, the two groups were responsible for more than half of all fatalities and both aimed their violence at private citizens rather than government or military targets to a much greater extent than other groups. “One entered the market and detonated the explosive, while the other detonated hers at the gate of the market”, the Police Commissioner revealed.
Two bombings in Nigeria – each targeting bustling markets – have killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds more in the space of 24 hours.
Officers fired warning shots as a deterrent for people to stay back from the market, which is typically packed with traders and shoppers.
“The ground near my shop was covered with dead bodies”. Aliyu’s two young cousins had narrowly missed the explosion.
Meanwhile, Facebook activated its “Safety Check” feature in Nigeria the attack. On Monday, the army said it had foiled an attack using high-powered assault weapons and bombs in the capital of Borno state, Maiduguri, as well as having uncovered a bomb-making factory.
Suspected members of Boko Haram have killed about 1000 people since President Muhammadu Buhari took office in May, vowing to crush the group.
The media had been awashed with news that about 100 Nigerian soldiers were missing after Boko Haram attacks in the epicenter of the battle.
“The enemies of humanity will never win”, he tweeted.
Boko Haram was founded in 2002, but it didn’t launch military campaigns until 2009. In April 2014, militants abducted 267 schoolgirls in Chibok, a primarily Christian village.
The studies by Institute for Economics and Peace and the Global Terrorism Index revealed the Nigerian militants took the lives of 6,644 people compared to 6,073 lives lost at the hands of the Iraqi-Syrian group.
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Last year, the deaths attributed to Boko Haram alone increased by more than 300%, it said. Or could not. Last year, a Nigerian soldier who spoke anonymously to BBC Hausa said that they were exhausted of “dying like fowl”.
