Suicide Bomber Strikes In N'East Adamawa, At Least 10 Killed

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Femi Adeoya
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At least 10 people were reportedly killed in Adamawa State on Friday in a suicide bomb attack at a busy local market in Gombi town of northern part of the state, locals and security sources confirmed.
 
Premium Times quoted residents who confirmed that several people were also injured when a teenage suicide bomber struck at busy market.
 
Gombi was recently recaptured from Boko Haram.
 
A Red Cross official in the state, Maikano Abdullahi, said, “Eight persons were confirmed dead, while 25 others were injured.”
 
A trader, who said he narrowly escaped death, Adamu Gombi, according to Premium Times, said the attack occurred in the early afternoon.
 
“It was around 12 noon, while we were busy trading at Kasuwar Buhu, a teenage boy detonated the bomb, killing himself and several others.
 
 
“As I am talking to you now, many lives were lost. I saw about ten corpses and those injured are being evacuated to hospitals,” he said.
 
According to him, during the ensuing confusion and stampede, many people lost their money and other valuables to pilferers.
 
“I saw people lying in the pool of their blood. I saw over five died bodies. There should be more security in areas recaptured from the insurgents, else it’s like starting the fight all over again,” a female trader, Grace David, told aREMIUM TIMES.
 
Friday’s attack was not the first in the area, recently liberated from the insurgents.
 
The Adamawa State Police Command spokesman, Othman Abubakar, a deputy superintendent of police, confirmed the incident, but did not give casualty details.
 
The state commissioner of Information, Ahmad Sajoh, called on residents to remain calm, assuring that security operatives were on the top of the situation.
 
Boko Haram's six-year insurgency in North-eastern Nigeria has led to the death of some 17,000 people, destroyed more than 1,000 schools and displaced more than 1.5million people.
 
The insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria, particularly in the three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency said earlier this week.
 
Boko Haram has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State and often displays its trademark black flag. Only a few days ago, the Islamic State, to which Boko Haram is affiliated, said its West Africa division had launched more than 100 attacks, killing more than 1,000 people over the past two months, the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites, reported.
 
 
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