Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Jos blasts kill scores

People gathering outside the bombed buildingTwo bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say.
A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night.
No group has said it carried out the attack, but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate.
The blasts are the latest in a series of deadly attacks in recent days which have seen more than 200 people killed.
The attacks came shortly after the Ramadan fast was broken, with both sites full of people.
Of the 44 dead, 23 were killed at the restaurant and 21 at the mosque, Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) says.
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The bomb at the Shagalinku restaurant came as people were breaking the Ramadan fast
There are also 47 people being treated for injuries, but emergency officials are still gathering information, so the figures may rise.

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