A mass of tangled limbs hung off the back of the pick-up truck stacked high with bloodied corpses. Bodies still littered the streets of Kano last night, two days after Islamists mounted a series of attacks on Nigeria's second largest city.

The first explosions rocked the commercial centre of the largely Muslim north on Friday night just as residents were heading for evening prayers. As worshippers fled in terror, bullets rang out.

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