Blasts kill at least 29 in Nigerian city of Gombe

Report reaching DAILY POST from Gombe State has it that multiple explosions just ripped through the city killing scores of people.

He said that those injured were also receiving medical attention at the hospital and Specialists’ Hospital, Gombe.

The first blast on Wednesday night struck near the Dadin Kowa terminal, prior to a second blast a few minutes later.

The attacks were carried out with Improvised Explosive Devices worn by Male and Female suicide bombers.

But Reuters said a suicide bomber was involved with the explosion at Dadin Kowa. Attajiri had no details about the second explosion but one trader, whose shop is near the Dukku bus station, said: “There were two explosions”. I counted up to 30 dead bodies.

At least nine people were killed on 17 July in a twin blast in the Nigerian town of Damaturu, Yobe state, while Muslims were celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.

Another two blasts occurred at the gate of the major Duku bus station and a small nearby market.

Shortly after, at about 7:30pm, a third blast occurred in another motor park some kilometres from the first one.

A police spokesperson in Gombe Fwaje Atajiri told Xinhua news agency over the phone that nine people lost their lives while several others sustained varying degrees of injury in two separate attacks that rocked the state.