27 Die As Suicide Bombers Hit Jos, Biu

Suicide bombers on Thursday attacked Jos, the Plateau State capital and Biu in Borno State and killed 27 people and injured many people. In the Biu attack, 15 persons were killed, while 12 people lost their lives in the twin blasts at Jos. According to an eyewitness, the suicide bomber detonated the bomb in front of one of the Filling Stations in Biu, a town that is about 160 kilometres from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram insurgency.

He said, “The suicide bomber was few metres away from a petrol filling station when the bomb on him detonated, killing him and 14 other persons in the vicinity.”

The Biu resident, who spoke to one of our correspondents on the telephone from Biu, said the suicide bomber rode a tricycle which he parked near the filling station.

“He parked the tricycle some metres away from the petrol station and was working in the direction of the filling station. But the bomb detonated and killed 10 persons and injured many others before he could get to the station. Thank God that the bomb detonated before he could get to the fuel station, the casuality figure could have been higher.

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