A bomb ripped through a crowded market on a bridge along Nigeria’s border with Cameroon on Monday, killing nine people and injuring several others, security sources said. The bomb exploded around 03.20 pm on the Nigerian side of the El Beid bridge, which separates the town of Gamboru in Nigeria from Fotokol in Cameroon. “Preliminary findings revealed that nine people were killed and all are Nigerians,” an army officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Boko Haram jihadist group operates on both sides of the border and has frequently carried out deadly suicide attacks. Boko Haram’s decade-long conflict has killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes in northeast Nigeria.

Source: Punch January 06, 2020 20:48 UTC