More than 45 dead in Nigeria blasts

Twin bombings in Nigeria have left at least 45 people dead, some completely decapitated, according to a witness.

More than 45 people have died in twin bombings in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a local health worker and witnesses have told AFP.

Health worker Dogara Shehu said he counted more than "45 people killed, some of them completely decapitated" in an account backed up by a witness, who declined to give his name.

A spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that "many people have been killed" but did not have an official death toll for Tuesday's attack.


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