Update - 29 Nigerians Feared Killed İn Multiple Blasts

At least 29 were reportedly killed in multiple blasts that rocked two towns in northern and central Nigeria on Thursday.



"Two suicide attackers entered Tashar Gandu motor park [in northeastern Biu town] but only one of them succeeded in detonating an explosive charge wired to his body," Jubrin Gunda, the spokesman of a local vigilante group, told The Anadolu Agency.



"Seventeen people died," he said, adding that the other bomber was mobbed by angry youths in the area.



"He was lynched immediately," Gunda said.



Biu has repeatedly been targeted by Boko Haram militants recently.



On Feb. 17, at least 26 people were killed in multiple bombings and a gunfight involving suspected Boko Haram militants in the town.



The Thursday attack in Biu occurred just minutes before twin explosions in Jos town in the central Plateau State.



"Explosives were thrown at the people from inside a moving vehicle," Audu Onoja, a journalist and resident of the area, told AA.



"One occurred on Bauchi road and the other one near the University of Jobs," he explained. "In all, 12 people died."



Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency confirmed the Jos attack to AA but did not give any details.



"We are busy with rescue work at the site of the blast at the moment," said Abdulsalam Mohammed, the regional coordinator. "We will give you details later."



Jos had suffered attacks blamed on Boko Haram in the past but Thursday's was the first this year.



Nigerian authorities warned earlier Thursday of Boko Haram attacks against soft targets in the country.



"Therefore, operators of motor parks, gardens, schools, churches and mosques need to exercise extra caution to be able to check the activities of these fugitive terrorists who are now resorting to attacking soft targets in the face of the onslaught by military forces," Mike Omeri, the dead of the national information center, told reporters at a news briefing in Abuja.



On Tuesday, at least 25 people died in separate suicide attacks in bus stations in Potiskum town of northeastern Yobe State and Kano in the northwest.



Since 2009, Nigeria has battled a fierce Boko Haram insurgency that has ravaged the country's volatile northeast and left thousands dead.



A seemingly emboldened Boko Haram recently stepped up its militant activity, seizing several areas of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, where it has declared a self-styled "Islamic caliphate."



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