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Two separate bomb explosions rocked the busy West of Mines area in the Jos city centre on Sunday evening within five minutes of each other but no casualty was recorded. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who was about 200 metres away from the scenes of the blast, reports that the first explosion occurred at 8.15 p.m. while the second one went off at 8.20 p.m.

The explosions occurred just when commercial activities at the area, which housed several eating and drinking places and provisions shops, were at their peak. An eyewitness, Sunday Chibuzor, told NAN that the suspects drove into the area in two vehicles - a dark Peugeot 406 and a red Opel Vectra - with unusual speed and consequently sped off after dropping the devices. `www.mannastores.com

`They came with high speed and dropped one at the junction where the people were drinking and also threw the other one where the women were roasting fish (30 metres away)," he said.

Immediately after the attack, the usual night life in the area was paralysed as fear-stricken residents scampered to safety to escape being caught up in the explosions. Men of the military Special Task Force (STF) and the police Anti-bomb Squad quickly arrived the area to calm the youths who were already agitated and protesting over the explosions. The STF spokesman, Charles Ekeocha, however told NAN that the force had alerted men of the Sector in charge of the area to the incident. Efforts to speak with Dipo Ayeni, the Plateau Commissioner of Police on phone, did not yield results.

Residents of the area had always expressed concerns over threats by some hoodlums to bomb the area which is predominantly populated by Christians and served as a meeting point for social activities in Jos.www.mannastores.com