An explosion shook an outdoor screening of a soccer match in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, wounding several people while fans were watching a Champions league match, witnesses said.
Reuters reported that there were no immediate reports of fatalities from the blast during a match between the British club Chelsea and Barcelona.
Drinking houses, churches and public gatherings are frequent targets for the violent sect Boko Haram, whose members regard those who do not follow its strict brand of Islamist ideology as infidels.
"We were just watching the Chelsea match when there was this huge blast that shook the place, and everyone ran off," said John Azi, who was lightly wounded by the blast in Tudun Wada, on the northern outskirts of the ethnically and religiously mixed city.
"Many people are injured. I didn't see anyone dead," he added.
A spokesman for the military task force keeping security in Jos was not immediately available for comment.
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Thank God nobody died. I think the FG should treat all these bombing issues once and for all. The perpetrators should not be allowed to continue shedding the blood of innocent souls.