Others • Created November 29, 2014 09:24

UPDATE: Death toll in Kano blast rises to 89

The death toll of the multiple bomb blasts that rocked Kano Central Mosque on Friday has risen to 89, Daily Trust learnt. Sources from hospitals told our correspondent that 78 corpses were deposited at the Murtala Muhammed Hospital and 11 at the Nasarawa hospital. The number of injured are now put at 107 with 51 […]

UPDATE: Death toll in Kano blast rises to 89
UPDATE: Death toll in Kano blast rises to 89


The death toll of the multiple bomb blasts that rocked Kano Central Mosque

on Friday has risen to 89, Daily Trust learnt.

Sources from hospitals told our correspondent that 78 corpses were deposited at the Murtala Muhammed Hospital and 11 at the Nasarawa hospital.

The number of injured are now put at 107 with 51 at the Murtala Muhammed Hospital and 56 at the Nasarawa hospital.

Daily Trust further gathered that some casualties were taken to the Airforce hospital but could not ascertain the figures.

 

The blasts happened at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the Muslimnorth of the country, just as Friday prayers had got under way at about 2:00 pm (1300 GMT).

 




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