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                  Two Blasts Kill 31 in Central Nigerian City

   by VOA News

   Two explosions have shaken the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing at
   least 31 people.

   The cause of the blasts was not immediately clear. They occurred near
   the site of a May bombing that took 118 lives and was suspected to be
   the work of the Boko Haram militant group.

   Details about Thursday's explosions were still emerging.

   On Wednesday, suicide bombers killed at least four people at a market
   in Nigeria's second-largest city, Kano.

   Police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya told VOA that two female bombers
   set off the explosives in the parking lot of the Kantin Kwari market.

   Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper reported that at least 12 other people
   were injured.

   There was no claim of responsibility, but the radical Islamist Boko
   Haram group has been blamed for a series of attacks in Kano, including
   the bombing of the city's central mosque late last month. That attack
   killed more than 80 people.
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