Over 60 passengers heading for Lagos have been killed while dozens got injured following an explosion that hit an inter-state luxury car park in Kano State, North-West Nigeria.

A member of Igbo traditional council in Kano, Tobias Idika, confirmed the explosion.

The “IED was kept inside the luxurious bus which was about to leave Kano to Lagos, people were frying like chicken here and you know thereare over two hundred people in this bus when the two IEDs,” Idika told to Channels Television shortly after the blast.

Another eyewitness confirmed that dozens of people were injured but could not count the number of dead persons.

There is no official confirmation of the report yet but residents said the area was being combed by men of the Joint Military task Force (JTF).