At least six
persons have been confirmed dead and 36 others hospitalised after a teenage
suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a crowded bus station in Potiskun town of
Yobe State yesterday, security sources said.
Mallam Ahmadu
Abdullahi, a local vigilante official in Potiskum, said he assisted the
security operatives to convey about 36 injured victims to the hospital and
helped to evacuate six corpses, including that of the suicide bomber to the
Potiskum General Hospital.
He told
newsmen on phone that “one of our members actually spotted a boy of about 15
years entering the Potiskum Bus station at about 11 am on Sunday,
but before we could stop and search him, the bomb exploded.
“By the time
I left the hospital, six persons were confirmed killed – and that includes the
bomber. We have taken 36 seriously injured persons to the Potiskum General
hospital; but we doubt if some of them who are in critical conditions could
make it. “
Police
spokesman in Yobe State, Markus Danladi, confirmed the attack but could not
give details on casualties.
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