Blasts at central Nigeria market were car bombs: military

Two bombs concealed inside a truck and a minibus rocked a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos today, the military said.

"The first IED (improvised explosive device) was in a truck. The second was in a minibus," said Kingsley Egbo, of the military State Task Force (STF) in Plateau state, of which Jos is the capital.

"The market was really crowded," he added.

"We are having a problem of crowd control... The emergency services have evacuated the casualties," he told AFP.