Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday struck again in Yobe and Bauchi states, killing 11 people, including five soldiers.
The Bauchi attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber at the Bulala Motor Park in the troubled Potiskum. Five people died and 36 others were injured.
That of Yobe was at a military checkpoint in Takanda-Giwa on the Bauchi-Jos Highway. Five soldiers and a civilian passerby were said to have lost their lives to the incident which took place a few hours after the militant Islamist sect abducted 80 people in Cameroon.
A hospital source in Potiskum, who narrated the attack to newsmen on the telephone, said five bodies, including that of the bomber and the injured, were brought to the General Hospital in the commercial town which in the past three weeks has been attacked thrice.
He said he feared that the death toll might rise as some of those injured were grappling to stay alive.
The source added that nine out of the 36 injured persons were later referred to the Federal Medical Centres in Azare and Nguru.
A motor park source, Idris AbdulKadir, said the suicide bomber sneaked into Bulala garage along the Bauchi-Jos Road and detonated an explosive device, killing himself and four others on the spot.
“The explosion went off around 9.50am on Sunday. As I speak, we counted five dead bodies but many other people are being conveyed to the hospital in Potiskum for immediate medical attention,” AbdulKadir said.
It was gathered that the attack at the Bauchi-Jos Highway forced motorists from Bauchi and Jos to abandon their vehicles and flee.
Unconfirmed reports had it that the attackers, who killed five soldiers and a civilian, escaped with the soldiers’ Toyota Hilux parked at the checkpoint.
But it could not be confirmed if any of the insurgents died during the exchange of fire with the soldiers.
A military source, who did not want his name in print, however claimed that one soldier and a civilian were killed.
A exchange of gunfire between soldiers and the insurgents in Gombi, Adamawa State was reported also reported on Sunday night.
A resident of the town, who gave his name simply as Musa, told our one of correspondents on the telephone, that the soldiers were repelling the terrorists.
“The soldiers, with the assistance of riot policemen, are dealing with insurgents,” Umar said.
source: nigerianeye
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