(CNN) -- Scores of people are feared dead after three explosions rocked a northern Nigerian mosque where people had gathered for Friday prayers, Nigerian state-run broadcaster NTA and worshipers at the mosque said.
The explosions happened Friday at the Kano Central Mosque in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, where Islamist militant group Boko Haram has a significant presence and has launched deadly attacks previously.
Information about what caused the explosions wasn't immediately available.
Kano is one of the areas where Boko Haram has fought an anti-government campaign to institute Sharia, or Islamic law. Attacks attributed to the group in Kano include a wave of bombings that killed 180 people in one day in 2012 and a suicide bombing that killed six people, including three police officers, at a gas station this month.
Earlier this month, the emir of Kano and the country's former central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, urged resistance against Islamist militants. Nigerian troops often rely on vigilantes and local hunters to help them fight Boko Haram in that part of the country
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is a sin," still is believed to be holding more than 200 girls it abducted in April from a school in Chibok, Borno state.
Also this month, Boko Haram's leader said the girls had been converted to Islam and married off, and he denied the government's claim that it had reached a ceasefire agreement with the group.
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