Damaturu, Yobe state, today Eid bomb blast claimed 50 lives in two bomb explosions.
Col. Sani Usman,
The Acting
Director, Army Public Relations, said in a statement
on Friday that 43 persons died in the first explosion which occurred at
7.40am and seven others in the second explosion.
Several other people were also said to have sustained different degrees of injuries from the two explosions.
The
explosions occurred while the screening of intending worshippers for the
early morning prayers was taking place at Layin Geange and ‘Phase 1 ‘
in front of the former Yobe State Secretariat, in Damaturu.
It was stated that a ten year old girl and an elderly woman carried out the two attacks at the screening area for the Eid prayers in Damaturu.
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