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| Nigeria's Kano blast leaves six dead, Boko Haram blamed | |
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| At least six people have been killed after a suicide bomb at a college in northern Nigeria's biggest city, Kano, witnesses say. | |
| The explosion occurred as students queued to check their names on a new admission list, they added. | The explosion occurred as students queued to check their names on a new admission list, they added. |
| Bodies lay strewn at the blast site, witnesses told the BBC. | Bodies lay strewn at the blast site, witnesses told the BBC. |
| Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations in Nigeria since launching a brutal insurgency in 2009. | Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations in Nigeria since launching a brutal insurgency in 2009. |
| The bomber was hidden in the crowd, a witness, Isyaku Adamu, told the AFP news agency. | The bomber was hidden in the crowd, a witness, Isyaku Adamu, told the AFP news agency. |
| "It was a huge crowd and people were jostling to go through the lists," Mr Adamu is quoted as saying. | |
| The BBC's Yusuf Ibrahim Yakasai in Kano says police have not yet confirmed the blast. | The BBC's Yusuf Ibrahim Yakasai in Kano says police have not yet confirmed the blast. |
| The number of people killed or wounded is still unclear, but Reuters news agency reports that six people were killed and six others were critically wounded. | |
| On Sunday, police said a bomb was thrown at worshippers leaving a Kano church, killing four people. | |
| Separately, a female suicide bomber blew herself up as she was cornered by police near the city's university. | |
| Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the regional Hausa language. | |
| In May 2013, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency in the northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, vowing the crush the insurgency. | |
| However, the militants have stepped up attacks, killing more than 2,000 civilians this year, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. |