At least 92 bodies were counted in a Nigerian hospital morgue after a suicide bomb and gun attack at the main mosque in Kano city, an AFP reporter said. The correspondent counted the bodies at the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, where hundreds of people used torchlights on their mobile phones in a desperate attempt to identify loved ones. A resue official told AFP earlier that victims had been brought to at least three other hospitals and emergency staff was working on updated casualty figure.The official, who requested anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to media, said 64 bodies had been brought to just one Kano area hospital after the attack at the city’s central mosque, and the wounded figure reflected statistics from three hospitals. “Those figures are going to climb,” he told AFP.Two bombs exploded at the mosque of one of Nigeria’s top Islamic leaders Friday, a week after he issued a call to arms to fight Boko Haram.The explosions came after civilian vigil
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 02:49:15 +0000
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