Another Bomb Blast Rocks JTF Checkpoint In Maiduguri.

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Less than 24 hours after militant Islamists bombed a beer joint killing 43 people, Nigeria's North Eastern city of Maiduguri in Borno State has again been rocked by another bomb blast, Naija News Desk has learned.

Today's blast targeted the Customs area of Maiduguri where members of the Joint Task force maintains a secretariat.

Naija News Desk learned that Islamists targeted a JTF check point near Custom House on Dikwa Road in the Maiduguri metropolis.

As of the time of filing this report, no casualty figures had been released by the police or the JTF  but eyewitnesses said several people have died while 9 people injured were taken to the university of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital