Bombs exploded Tuesday outside of two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa’s most populous nation, injuring an unknown number of people.
The attacks came as a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram launches increasingly bloody attacks on Nigeria’s weak central government. No one immediately claimed Tuesday’s bombings, though suspicions quickly fell on the sect, even as state-run television aired a purported video Tuesday from the group claiming it welcomed peace talks with the government.
The blasts struck near the Nigerian army’s 1st Mechanized Division headquarters and the training command of the Nigerian air force near Kaduna, officials
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