At least 47 died in a market bomb blast in Sabon-Gari town
in Borno state, north-east of Nigeria some medical source,
witnesses
said on Tuesday
Also the Borno State Police Command has said that Boko
Haram terror group is not winning the ongoing war, as the
insurgents are running “helter-skelter to survive” by fleeing
to neighbouring countries of Niger, Cameroon and Chad in
North East of the country to attack soft
targets in the sub-region.
This is even as no fewer than 47 people mostly traders were
on Tuesday killed with several others sustained injuries when
some group of terrorists suspected to be suicide bombers
invaded Sabon Gari community market of Damboa Local
Government Area of the state.
The explosion ripped through the weekly market in the
village of Sabon Gari, around 135 kilometres (85 miles)
south of Borno state capital Maiduguri, during peak trading
around 1:15 pm (1230 GMT), the sources said.
“We have received at least 47 dead bodies and at least 50
with injuries from the Sabon Gari market, where there was a
blast this afternoon,” a nurse at Biu General Hospital,
around 50 kilometres (30 miles) away, told AFP.
He said the injuries from the blast are mostly “severe” and
that the death toll was expected to rise.
“The explosion happened inside the market at the mobile
phone section, near the livestock section of the market,” said
Yuram Bura, a member of a local vigilante group fighting
Boko Haram alongside the army.
“It was concealed in a napsack used for spraying herbicides.
It was smuggled into the market and apparently
abandoned… This is no doubt the handiwork of Boko
Haram.”