Two child bombers hit Yobe, kill five

Five people, including two female bombers, died on Sunday while 46 others were injured after terrorists launched a twin bomb attack on a GSM market in Potiskum, Yobe State.

Suicide bombers had a day earlier planted a bomb in a vehicle which exploded at a police station in the town, killing a police inspector and others while many suffered varying degree of injuries.

►The attacked market is located close to the Brema Primary School along the Mohammed Idrissa Way in the heart of the troubled commercial town.
►According to eyewitnesses, two female suicide bombers had arrived in the market on a tricycle with one going into the market while the other waited in the tricycle.

It was learnt that as the two who detonated the explosive on them simultaneously thus casing pandemonium in the area.

By the time the dust settled, five people, including the bombers, had laid dead with their bodies shattered into pieces.

A trader at the market, Sani Abdu Potiskum, told Chat212 that the bombers were about 10 years old.

“I saw their dead bodies. They are two young girls of about 10 years of age … you only see the plaited hair and part of the upper torso,” the trader said.

Another witness, who accompanied the ambulances taking casualties to the hospital, said three people, excluding the bombers, were killed and at least 46 people were wounded.

The town was hit by a suicide bomber in November when at least 48 people, mainly pupils, were killed during a school assembly. On Saturday, a bomb exploded at a police station in Potiskum.

Sunday’s explosions came a day after a bomb strapped to a girl aged around 10 years old exploded in a busy market place in the city of Maiduguri, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 20, security sources said.