At least three people were killed on Saturday in the Central Nigerian city of Jos in an explosion aimed at football fans watch the European Champions League final, the authorities said.
Anti-bomb police officers working near the engine of the Jeep used by the suicide bomber that ThisDay newspapers in Abuja on 26 April 2012. AFP PHOTO
The blasts came just days after a twin car bomb through a crowded market in the city ripped, 118 dead and raising fears of a spread of Boko Haram Islamic violence from the restive Northeast.
"So far, we have three dead, three wounded," Chris Olakpe, told the Police Commissioner for Plateau state, of which Jos is the capital, AFP.
"The goal was the Center (football)."
Olakpe said it was too early to say that may have been responsible for the explosion, which came with people on edge and nerves frayed over a fresh strike.
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