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Reports state that the first Improvised Explosive Device, IED, was detonated close to the market generator, while the second bomb went off at the heart of the market.
A teenage suicide bomber believed to be working for the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group was said to be behind the first explosion at the entrance of the market while another female suicide bomber was said to have ferried the second device which exploded near a pavilion in the centre of the market.
Though details of the incident are still sketchy, many people are however believed to have been killed and several others injured.
The tragic inicident is happening less than 24 hours after a similar explosion rocked a crowded park in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, leaving at least 34 people dead and 80 injured.
The number of people killed by suicide bomb blasts at a mobile phone market in Kano has risen to 15, police in the northern Nigerian city say
About 50 others were also wounded in the attack carried out by two female suicide bombers.
This is the first attack Kano city has suffered for about six months.
See more photos from the incident below and photo credit to BBC Africa
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Too bad
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