Three bombs have exploded in a city in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least two dead and eight wounded, police announced today, also attributed the attacks to an Islamic sect called Boko Haram. The explosions have occurred last night at the Palace hotel Tudu and Tasha transport station in the city of Kano, Maiduguri, has indicated the police spokesman, Mai Mamman.
"The victims have been evacuated to two hospitals. All indications are that the attack was the work of Haram Boko, who has conducted similar attacks in the past," concluded the spokesman for the police. Boko Haram is accused of being responsible for several killings of police officers, community leaders and attacks on churches in recent months in northern Nigeria.
Its militants are fighting for the creation of an Islamic state in a country where the population is divided between Christians and Muslims. More than 500 people have died since the holding of the April 16 presidential elections in Nigeria as a Nigerian NGO has alleged civil rights. The explosions took place just two days before regional elections in Nigeria scheduled for tomorrow, and a week after the last presidential day 16, which was re-elected President Goodluck Jonathan.
Maiduguri has been one of the cities hardest hit by the wave of violence that has swept the northern states of Nigeria, a Muslim majority after the elections. Northern parties accuse Jonathan of having inflated the results in the Christian states of the south to neutralize the Muslim vote and retain the presidency. 
"The victims have been evacuated to two hospitals. All indications are that the attack was the work of Haram Boko, who has conducted similar attacks in the past," concluded the spokesman for the police. Boko Haram is accused of being responsible for several killings of police officers, community leaders and attacks on churches in recent months in northern Nigeria.
Its militants are fighting for the creation of an Islamic state in a country where the population is divided between Christians and Muslims. More than 500 people have died since the holding of the April 16 presidential elections in Nigeria as a Nigerian NGO has alleged civil rights. The explosions took place just two days before regional elections in Nigeria scheduled for tomorrow, and a week after the last presidential day 16, which was re-elected President Goodluck Jonathan.
Maiduguri has been one of the cities hardest hit by the wave of violence that has swept the northern states of Nigeria, a Muslim majority after the elections. Northern parties accuse Jonathan of having inflated the results in the Christian states of the south to neutralize the Muslim vote and retain the presidency.
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