At least 48 people have been killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday when a bomb ripped through a Sabon Gari market in north-east Nigeria.
Dozens of people have been killed in a bomb attack on a packed market in northeast Nigeria. The explosion, bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram, took place at Sabon Gari in Borno state, within the Islamist militant group's heartland. Around 50 people are reported dead, with dozens of others injured. The BBC reports that the blast, which injured more than 50 people, occurred in the village of Sabon Gari on Tuesday afternoon. The incident joins a trend of attacks attributed to terrorist group Boko Haram, which has for six years waged a campaign of military assaults, mass executions, kidnappings and suicide bombings in a bid to establish an Islamic government in Nigeria. The attack comes the same day Nigeria's immigration agency said it blocked the travel of up to 24,000 people, some of whom were suspected of trying to join terrorist groups abroad.
