Six persons, including
three policemen, were killed in a suspected Boko Haram suicide attack at the
Magasurku Filling petrol station in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano,
police said on Friday.
“A
man driving a Toyota Sienna drove into the filling station as if he was going
to buy fuel. The vehicle exploded causing six deaths, including three
policemen,” the Kano state police commissioner Adelenre Shinaba told reporters.
“It
is obviously a suicide attack,” he said of the blast in the Hotoro area of the city
and blamed “the terrorists we’ve been battling”, referring to Boko Haram
Islamists.
The
blast happened at about 7:30 pm (1830 GMT), causing a fire that engulfed the
facility and set cars ablaze.
The
petrol station is opposite the scene of a July 28 suicide attack by a female
bomber and is used as a base by a military unit that patrols the area,
indicating troops may have been the target.
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