The City Reporters.
“It was like a movie,” Civilian JTF said
The death toll of yesterday’s suicide bomb attack in potiskum, Yobe State has risen to 29 while 80 others have been reportedly injured.
The City Reporters reported, Monday, that a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber had blown up himself at a religious procession of the Shia Islamic brotherhood killing 15 and injuring 15 others.
Hospital sources in Potiskum has confirmed that 22 people lost their lives in the blast, while five others died as a result of bullet injuries sustained during the shooting that followed the blast. Two other injured persons were said to have lost the battle of their lives at about 6:15pm, Monday
The City Reporters gathered that 16 children and 11 adults comprising of 24 male and three female made up the number of persons who died in the blast.
Health workers said they evacuated 22 bodies at the scene of the blast but later recovered additional five bodies with bullet wounds, confirming the statement of the Head of the City’s Shiite Community, Alhaji Mustapha Lawan Nasidi who accused soldiers of firing indiscriminately immediately after the blast.
The suicide bomber was said to have disguised as one of the Shia Muslim Brotherhood as they convened near Fadiya Islamic School about to embark on the annual procession to mark the Islamic Ashura Day but suddenly detonated the explosive vest he wore.
Yobe State police commissioner, Mr Danladi Markus, however confirmed the suicide bomb attack to journalists but said that only four people were killed.
In a statement issued by his spokesman Abullahi Bego, the Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, described the attack as “heinous, barbaric and unwarranted,” saying it was sad that such an attack was coming at a time the state was celebrating the return of what seemed a sustained peace.
He also promised to foot the bills of all those affected by the bombing even as he sympathized with the families that lost their loved ones to the blast.
