BOMB BLAST: 17 Persons Killed, Dozens Injured In Borno No fewer than 17 persons have been killed in a multiple bomb blast that rocked a ...
BOMB BLAST: 17 Persons Killed, Dozens Injured
In Borno
No fewer than 17 persons have been killed in a multiple bomb blast
that rocked a Borno village on Sunday night, according to local vigilantes.
The
sources also told Daily Trust that dozens sustained different degrees of
injuries in the attack.
No
group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet
.
Daily
Trust gathered that the incident occurred at Mandarari village in Kinduga local
government area of the state at exactly 8:50pm.
According
to the sources, three suicide bombers detonated Improvised Explosive Devices,
IEDs, at a viewing centre which killed no fewer than 17 people, including a
mobile policeman.
“The
information revealed that it was three suicide bombers, two female and a male,
who detonated the IEDs, killing themselves in the process and others around a
viewing center and a joint opposite the clinic at Mandarari ward, Konduga.
“Though
17 persons, including one mobile policeman are dead while the injured may be as
high as 30 civilian,” said a vigilante who doesn’t want his name mentioned.
As at
the time of filing this report, the military and police have not issued any
official statement to ascertain the magnitude of this attack.
However,
some sources at the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, have confirmed the
same figure.
Officials
of the agency were on there way to Konduga, as at the time of filing this
report, to evacuate the dead and convey the injured to the hospital.
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