Bokoo Haram Kano attacks: Death toll rises to 162

KANO (AFP) – Bomb attacks targeting security forces and gun battles killed at least 162 people in Nigeria’s second-largest city of Kano, sources said, as bodies littered the streets on Saturday.

A curfew was imposed on Kano in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north after it exploded into violence on Friday evening, with eight police and immigration offices or residences targeted.

The main newspaper in the north said that a purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram had claimed responsibility for the violence, saying it was in response to authorities’ refusal to release its members from custody. Scores of such attacks in Nigeria’s north have been blamed on Boko Haram, though Friday’s would be among the group’s most audacious and well-coordinated assaults.

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