UPDATED: 3 killed as female bomber hits Kano

Just one day after three bomb explosions were recorded in three different parts of Kano, Kano State, another bomb exploded on Monday morning at NNPC mega station, Hotoro Quarters, along Maiduguri Road, in the city.

Three people, excluding the suicide bomber – identified as a female – died on first count. Confirming the blast, Police spokesman, Franck Mba, said the bomb went off at about 10:00am at the filling station, after a suicide bomber “suspected to be a female” slipped into the crowd of citizens buying kerosene at the station before detonating the explosives. “The suicide bomber and three others have been confirmed dead; eight persons are injured and rushed to the Hospital,” he said. According to Mba, the mega station did not go ablaze due to the security barricade put in place by the policemen on duty at the station. “Such a situation would have clearly complicated the emergency response,” he said. “Security forces have cordoned off the scene, and police bomb disposal experts are ‘sweeping’ the area.” He advised citizens to stay off the scene, to be vigilant and to report any suspicious person or activity to security forces. He also said full-scale investigation into the blast and intensive patrol of the city had begun.