Female bomber, 6 others die in Kano blasts

A few hours after police in Kano State said they had aborted a bloodbath after discovering a car loaded with explosives (pictured), a suspected female bomber has died in a blast opposite the temporary campus of North-West University.

Explosives had been discovered close to the mosque of Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu at Goron Dutse earlier on Sunday, according to the Kano state commissioner of police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba.

The explosion opposite the university might have been targeted at students and seemed to have gone off prematurely.

The only victim, according to initial reports, is the suspected bomber.

Details are still sketchy.

Six other people died on Sunday, also in Kano State, after two separate bombs went off at a church and in Kofar Nassarawa.

Eight people were injured in the blasts.

Kano State commissioner of police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba, confirmed the blasts, saying three suspects had been arrested.

Kano has been experiencing a series of blasts this year, the last coming during the week at a bus garage.

There was another attack at the School of Hygiene which claimed eight lives in June.