The twin blasts occurred less than a day after 34 people were killed and 80 others injured in a similar attack at a market in Yola, capital of the northeastern state of Adamawa, on Tuesday.
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Released by the Institute for Economics and Peace on the basis of a global database on terrorist activity, the Global Terrorism Index 2015 says that Boko Haram was responsible for 6,644 deaths during 2014, while ISIS killed 6,073 people. “The victims were taken to hospital and it was later confirmed that 15 people died, not including the suicide bombers”.
No organization has yet claimed credit for the attack, but it is consistent with the behavior and within the territory of Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group that has been responsible for thousands of deaths in Nigeria since 2003.
Under Buhari’s predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, when Dasuki was in office, Boko Haram took control of parts of Nigeria’s northeast where it is trying to carve out an Islamic state.
The Islamist terror group Boko Haram has previously used young girls as human bombs in its six-year insurgency in north-east Nigeria, which has left at least 17,000 dead and made more than 2.6 million homeless.
The suicide bombers attacked popular Farm Centre GSM Market in Kano killing scores of marketers a few minutes before 4 p.m. yesterday.
Boko Haram, which is the deadliest terrorist group in the world, is believed to have carried out the attacks.
The explosions came as Nigeria’s president continued his campaign against the country’s endemic corruption, which is blamed for hampering the fight against the insurgents. Buhari had also accused the previous government’s security adviser Sambo Dasuki, of collecting over $2 billion, which was allocated to purchase warplanes, helicopters and other military gear to fight Boko Haram.
Security experts, regional authorities and western military officials have credited Mr Buhari’s renewed push against Boko Haram with scattering the group, which hit the headlines when it kidnapped scores of schoolgirls and seized entire towns in northern Nigeria.
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The United States was the deadliest western country for terrorism in 2014, with 18 fatalities in 19 attacks.
