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The Police in Rivers State, Nigeria’s South-south, said there was an explosion in a popular market in Port Harcourt on Monday morning.
The market has been identified as Mile 3 Market in the city.
“A locally fabricated dynamite exploded when one Mrs Ifemia Aloke, popularly known as ‘mama Joy’ opened her fish shop, inflicting injuries on her son and one other young lady who are currently receiving medical attention.
“No life was lost in the incident,” the police spokesperson in the state, Nnamdi Omoni, said in a statement on Monday.
Mr Omoni, a superintendent of police, said police officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) were immediately dispatched to the scene to sweep and render the market safe.
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