An agency official says 44 people were killed and 67 wounded by two bombs that exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria’s central city of Jos.
Witnesses say the explosion at Yantaya Mosque came as a leading cleric who preaches peaceful co-existence was addressing a crowd during the holy month of Ramadan.
Another bomb exploded at Shagalinku, a restaurant patronized by elite politicians.
Jos is located where Nigeria’s majority Muslim north and mainly Christian south collide. The city has been targeted in the past by bomb blasts claimed by Boko Haram killing hundreds.
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