A bombing at a football pitch in Nigeria’s restive northeast killed at least 40 people yesterday in an area prone to attacks by the Terror outfit Boko Haram.
The blast hit the town of Mubi in Adamawa state, one of three in the northeast which has been under a state of emergency for more than a year as Nigeria’s military has tried to crush Boko Haram’s five-year extremist uprising.
“There has been a bomb explosion at a football field this evening and so far more than 40 people have been killed,” said the officer in Mubi who requested anonymity.
