#News: Nigeria Bomb Blasts Kill Dozens In City Of Jos

[HuffingtonPost]

JOS, Nigeria, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded near a  bus station in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Thursday  evening, witnesses said, the second one killing at least 32  people.                

Casualties from the first blast could not immediately be  ascertained and Nigerian security sources could not immediately  be reached for comment.                

Bomb blasts that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram  militants killed 118 people in the same area of Jos in May this  year.                

Boko Haram is a Sunni jihadist movement that has been waging  a five-year insurgency to establish an Islamist state in the  northeast of the country.                

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in  three northeastern states last year. The number of attacks has  risen sharply since then, in the run-up to elections in February  2015.                

The latest blasts came as both Jonathan's ruling party and  the main opposition coalition agreed on candidates to contest  the elections, in which security is likely to be a major  campaign issue. Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari will be  challenging Jonathan at the polls for the second time.     (Reporting by Buhari Bello; Additional reporting by Isaac  Abrak; Writing by Julia Payne, editing by Tim Cocks and Mark  Trevelyan)
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