Suicide Bomber Strikes In Yobe Capital

Daily Trust reports that the assaulter ran
into an uncompleted building located at
the Tsohuwar Kasuwa area, and detonated
an explosive device.
An eyewitness of the incident, identified
as Abubakar Salisu, said that about 5:00pm
the bomber alighted from a tricycle and
headed to a crowd o people. However he
looked suspicious and therefore was
stopped by volunteer guards.
“Many people became suspicious of him as he
started advancing. We shouted at him to leave the
area, and he ran into an uncompleted building
where the bomb exploded.”
No other life was lost in the attack.
A source from Potiskum General Hospital
confirmed the information saying that the
bomber’s mutilated body parts had
been brought in a sack and deposited at
the morgue.
Potiskum has been hit several times in the
previous month.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive at
a Potiskum bus station allegedly killing 4
people and injuring scores of others.
A week before the incident, two explosions
were heard at a busy mobile phone market
of the city. At least 20 people were said to
have been killed in the attack.
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