Photos: Police averted bomb blast incident in Kano this morning

The Nigeria police released these photos of car rigged with explosives that targeted Kano city. Nigeria police said on Monday that they thwarted a fresh attempt to detonate a car bomb in Kano, a day after a bombing killed four people in an area of the city attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram. This car would have caused a second bomb attack in Kano following a first that killed at least 13 people at a beer joint last night in Sabon Gari area of Kano.

The vehicle was packed with material for an improvised explosive device but was recovered and made safe before it could be detonated.

Bomb Explodes In Kaduna.

A bomb has just exploded around the Ahmadu Bello Way/Lugard/Alkali axis in Kaduna, Kaduna State, according to eyewitnesses. At least 3 dead bodies were seen at the scene of the blast. One eyewitness said that the Bomb was detonated in transit, killing them instantly.

Suicide bomb attack on Nigeria checkpoint kills eight

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A car packed with explosives exploded in Shagari Housing Estate of Damaturu in Yobe State around noon today.

"The lone suicide bomber detonated the bomb before the car he was in could be stopped, killing the six soldiers and one civilian," Patrick Egbmuniwe, the police commissioner for Yobe State, told Reuters by telephone.

"Another civilian died of his wounds in hospital shortly after."

Witness Abdullahi Sabo said the whole neighborhood shook when the Damaturu bomb exploded.

"The car blew up outside the front of my shop, the explosion was deadly," he said. "After the dust settled, many security operatives were rushed to the hospital."

In a separate incident, police said suspected sect members had shot dead a former commissioner for the environment in neighboring Borno state, the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency, in the early hours of Saturday.