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(Bloomberg) — A man was killed while trying to plant a bomb on a petrol tanker in the north-central Nigerian city of Kaduna yesterday, police spokesman Aminu Lawan said.

“The bomb exploded with the man and killed him; he is the only person that died,” Lawan said by phone today from the city.

Authorities in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, blame Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group, for a surge of attacks since 2009 against government buildings and security forces in the mainly Muslim north and Abuja, the capital.

The group claimed responsibility for multiple blasts and attacks in the city of Kano on Jan. 20 that killed at least 256 people, according to the Civil Rights Congress. In February, a blast at a military checkpoint in Kaduna killed at least one person.