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尼日利亚一处集市发生爆炸事故 48人丧生

At least 48 people were killed Tuesday in a blast which rocked a local market in Damboa district of Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, a security source and a witness said.

尼日利亚东北部博尔诺州甘博阿地区一处当地市场本周二发生一起爆炸事故,至少48人丧生。
 
More than 40 people sustained various degrees of injuries by the blast which occurred in the afternoon at Sabon Gari community, the unnamed local security source told Xinhua. 
 
The bomb was planted inside the market. A deafening sound caused by the explosive device reverberated through the small community, the source added. 
 
A witness named Idrissa Saleh, who participated in the rescue operation after the blast, said the community was "devastated" by the incident as "most families in the small community lost a loved one." 
 
There has been no official statement on the attack.