A bomb explosion at a village market in troubled Borno State on Tuesday left 20 persons dead and 25 others injured, a youth vigilante member has said.
The youth vigilante member, Abdul Isa, said on phone that:
“Many people were killed in Sabon Gari market along Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu highway on Tuesday afternoon when a bomb explosion rocked the market.’’
He said: “Our men heard a loud explosion at about 1:35pm, when they got there people were scattered some beyond recognition.”
He added that the incident was not a suicide bombing but rather a planted bomb at the centre of the market.
Another member of the youth vigilante group in Sabon Gari, Yusuf Musa, said that 20 corpses were picked after the bomb attack at the market. Musa said 25 other persons were injured in the attack which occurred at about 1:35 pm yesterday.
He said: “We were called to evacuate the corpses and assist the injured to hospital during which I counted 20 dead bodies and our men assisted 25 injured persons to health facilities.”
Sabon Gari is a village on Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu highway, a distance of about 140 kilometres from Maiduguri, the capital of troubled Borno State, North-east Nigeria.
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