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At least three blasts reported near mosque in northeastern city, and gunmen shot dead three people in separate incident.
Last Modified: 30 Dec 2011 18:05
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Three explosions struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri shortly after Muslim prayers, but caused no casualties, the military said, and gunmen shot dead three members of a cleric's family dead in a separate incident.
Maiduguri lies at the epicentre of a low level insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been blamed for waves of bombings and shootings, including a Christmas Day bomb at a Catholic church that killed at least 37 people.
All of the Maiduguri bombs on Friday struck near a market areas in different parts of the city, military spokesman for
Maiduguri Mohammed Hassan said by telephone, denying reports that one of them struck near a mosque.
"There was a loud blast near the mosque just after the Friday prayers as people were trooping out of the mosque," one resident told the AFP.
"Everybody scampered to safety, leading to a stampede."
Gunmen stormed the family of a junior Muslim cleric behind Maiduguri's Railway Quarters and shot dead his family.
"The Boko Haram sect members came this morning looking for Modu but as he had already gone out they opened fire on members of his family killing three of them," witness Baba Lawan said.
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