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Fresh Boko Haram attack in Nigeria kill scores Australian News.Net Friday 12th December, 2014 JOS, Nigeria - Dozens of people have been killed in fresh terror attacks, including twin bombings that hit a busy market place in the central Nigerian city of Jos, blamed on Islamist terror group Boko Haram, officials and witnesses said Friday. Mohammed Abdulsalam, coordinator for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency in Jos, said that the two blasts were coordinated to cause maximum casualties. He, however, could not give the exact number of victims in the two bombings. "At the moment, we are attending to victims," Abdulsalam told reporters. But witnesses and security officials said that at least 40 people were killed in the bombings at the same place Thursday evening. Police said the blasts occurred as store owners were closing their shops and Muslims were preparing for evening prayers. Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media, said one of the blasts went off at an outdoor food stand and the other at the nearby entrance to the Terminus market in the centre of the city. The capital city of Plateau state lies in Nigeria's "Middle Belt" where the mainly Muslim north meets the mostly Christian south. The city, with a population of approximately 100,000, is home to both Christians and Muslims. It has been targeted by Boko Haram fighters in the past. It is also an epicenter of sectarian clashes that end up quite frequently into deadly violence. In May, 118 people were killed in a militant attack Another attack by the Boko Haram militant group in a remote town of Nigeria's northeastern Borno state killed at least 13 people, according to a security officer. The officer said that heavily armed militants late Thursday stormed the Gajigana town, 45 km north of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno and raided the town. The militants set fire to houses, forcing people to flee. The arson was followed by sporadic firing on fleeing residents. Boko Haram, a Sunni jihadist movement, has been waging a five-year insurgency to establish an Islamist state in the northeast of the Nigeria. The group has killed thousands in their campaign since 2009. The latest violence prompted the archbishop of Jos to ask the government do more to protect ordinary people in the violence-hit country. Archbishop Ben Kwashi told the BBC that most of the victims were poor and defenceless. "Government must step up, to show that it cares about the weak, about the poor, about those who have no means at all in the society." - See more at: http://www.australiannews.net/index.php/sid/228496783#sthash.hMELZ7jL.dpuf