Suicide Bomber Kills 50 In Borno.

Another bomb blast rocked the troubled Borno State capital of Maiduguri   late on Tuesday morning , leaving many dead and others wounded.

The suicide attack  took place yesterday afternoon at the Kasuwan Shanu(meat market).

Yesterday’s was the fourth bomb blast within Maiduguri and Biu town in Borno State since May 29.

Although the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the state Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Opadokun, as saying that five people died in the blast, Reuters reported 50.

Opadokun said the suspect, “who was shouting “Sai Buhari,’’ danced close to an abattoir in the market, before detonating the bomb strapped to his body when people had gathered around him.

‘‘Five people, including himself, died, while eight others sustained injuries,’’ he said, adding that   policemen were mobilised to the scene to evacuate the corpses and convey the injured to the hospital.

But Reuters quoted a witness as claiming that   “as many as 50 people were killed.’’

It added that   Lawal Kawu, a paramedic, said 31 charred bodies were taken to a teaching hospital in Maiduguri.