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Saturday 1 November 2014
Boko Haram kills 30 in Gombe blast
No fewer
than 30
persons
were
killed on
Friday
when a
bomb
was detonated by some suspected Boko Haram
insurgents at a bus terminus in Gombe.
Some residents of the town, who spoke to our
correspondent, said the blast occurred at about
9am when the bus terminus was full with
travellers.
The residents claimed that about 30 corpses lied
at the bus terminus immediately after the
explosion
An eyewitness, Ibrahim Issa, said, “It was quite
unfortunate that today (Friday) will go down in
the history of Gombe as Black Friday as the
usually packed full terminus of the state transport
authority aka Gombe line was attacked by
suspected terrorists. “At about 9 am, an
improvised explosive device went off at the park,
while passengers were boarding commercial
vehicles to various destinations across the
country.
“The blast left scores of people dead, with many
others sustaining various degrees of injury and 12
vehicles were affected.”
Addressing journalists at the scene of the
incident, the Gombe State Commissioner of
Police, Kudu Nma, said it was unfortunate that
such a thing occurred in the state where peace
had always been enjoyed.
Nma could, however, not ascertain the number of
casualties at the time of filing this report, but a
mortuary attendant with the Specialist Hospital
confirmed that 23 bodies were brought from the
scene of the incident.
It was also learnt that a body was deposited at
the Federal Teaching hospital.
The police commissioner, however, confirmed the
arrest of three persons suspected to be
masterminds of the attack. The suspects were
said to have sneaked into the park in a
Volkswagen Sharon bus, with the inscription Yobe
line on it.
When our correspondent visited the state
Specialist hospital, tension rose as many people
thronged the facility to check if their relatives
were among the victims.
Meanwhile, the state Governor, Dr. Ibrahim
Dankwambo, said eight people lost their lives as a
result of the blast. He said this at the Federal
Teaching Hospital, Gombe, shortly after visiting
survivors of the incident, who were receiving
medical attention.
Dankwambo, while describing the day as a sad
one for the state and the entire nation, said eight
people lost their lives and 46 others were injured
but majority of them had been discharged from
the hospital, while 15 were still on admission
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