Two kid female bombers hit Yobe killing five

In the wake of a bomb blast in Borno State, five people, including two female bombers died on Sunday while 46 others were injured after terrorists launched a twin bomb attack on a GSM market in Potiskum, Yobe State.

Suicide bombers had a day earlier planted a bomb in a vehicle which exploded at a police station in the town, killing a police inspector and others while many suffered varying degree of injuries.

The attacked market is located close to the Brema Primary School along the Mohammed Idrissa Way in the heart of the troubled commercial town.

According to eyewitnesses, two female suicide bombers had arrived in the market on a tricycle with one going into the market while the other waited in the tricycle.

It was learnt that the two detonated the explosive on them simultaneously thus casing pandemonium in the area. By the time the dust settled, five people, including the bombers, had laid dead with their bodies shattered into pieces.

A trader at the market, Sani Abdu Potiskum, told Reuters that the bombers were about 10 years old. “I saw their dead bodies. They are two young girls of about 10 years of age … you only see the plaited hair and part of the upper torso,” the trader said.

Another witness, who accompanied the ambulances taking casualties to the hospital, said three people, excluding the bombers, were killed and at least 46 people were wounded.