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Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency has pegged at 118 the death toll from multiple explosions that rocked Jos, capital of Nigeria's central Plateau State, on Tuesday.
"This is a catastrophe," spokesman Ezekiel Manzo told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday morning.
"So far, we can account for 118 casualties but this could rise," he said.
Manzo said fifty-six are thought to have been injured in the attacks that ripped through the city.
But Plateau police chief Chris Olakpe insisted the death toll stood at 46, the figure they gave on Tuesday.
"We will update you on the figure maybe later today," he told AA Wednesday morning.
Eyewitness in Jos insisted that the death toll was much higher than even given by the emergency agency.
"The casualties cannot be below 150 or so going by the figures from different hospitals across town," Theophilus Loyi, a local resident and an eyewitness to one of the blasts, told AA this morning.
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