At least 14 people have been killed and about 40 injured in a bomb blast near an army barracks in northern Nigeria.
The explosion hit a market in the city of Bauchi late last night. No group has so far said it carried out the blast.
It came just hours after Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as Nigeria's president for a new four-year term in the capital Abuja.
Three bomb blasts hit a ‘mammy market’ - commonly found at Nigerian military barracks and open to civilians - in the northern city of Bauchi, located in one of the states hard hit by post-poll riots last month.
The attacks at the market were caused by ‘locally made devices’, Bauchi state police commissioner Abdulkadir Indabawa said.
There was no indication of who was behind the blasts.
‘There were lots of people since it's a Sunday evening,’ Mr Indabawa said. ‘People were relaxing, eating and drinking. The market is inside the barracks.’
The barracks commander told reporters that the three bombs went off at ‘exactly 8pm when people were relaxing.’ He said two people were killed and seven wounded.
‘All victims were civilians,’ said Brigadier General Agbo Robinson. Civilians are allowed into such markets at military barracks.
Elsewhere, tfour people were killed in wo separate blasts today in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria, the hometown of Vice-President Namadi Sambo.
