A bomb explosion that occurred Tuesday evening at a tipper garage market in Yola, Adamawa State, killed 32 people and
more, the National Emergency Management Agency said.
Sa’ad Bello, NEMA coordinator in Adamawa confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
The blast happened at the gate of the market close to tipper garage in the evening as traders left the market.
A PREMIUM TIMES correspondent who visited the Yola Specialist Hospital saw victims of the blast being attended to. A few others were taken to the Federal Medical Center, he said.
A police bomb squad was at the scene of the attack Wednesday morning.
Another witness, Hamid Dogo, said the suicide bomber detonated the bomb in front of a woman who sold cooked food.
“The woman and her son Chidinma died on the spot. I was part of the people that help in the victims,” he said
“The man, we suspect, was giving bean cake to almajaris and the next thing was a blast,” Mr. Hamid said.
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