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Friday 05 Jun 2015 - 19:10 Makkah mean time-18-8-1436
Yola market explosion (Image from Internet)
Abuja (IINA) – As many as 25 people are believed to have died as a suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday night as traders headed home from a major market in Yola town of Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa state, Anadolu Agency reported, citing witnesses and officials.
"Many people have died at Jimeta market tonight, around 8 p.m., when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive. I personally counted 25 people," Bala Audu, a resident of Yola, told Anadolu on phone.
He said the blast occurred just as people were rushing to observe their Isha prayer in the big city where thousands of the internally displaced persons, including the near 1,000 Boko Haram captives recently freed, are camped.
Earlier on Thursday, a senior military official said that at least five soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed into their post along Baga road in northeastern Borno state.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but suspicion falls on the Boko Haram militants who have waged violent insurgency in the region in the past six years.
The blast in Adamawa came hours after Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari and his Chadian counterpart Idris Deby renewed their cooperation to crush the group, which has conducted cross border attacks in the past years.
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