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| Some of the Casualties |
Two
separate bomb blasts on Friday at a market in the Madagali area of Adamawa
State killed over 56 persons while also leaving at least 177 others critically
injured.
The
Army Public Relations Officer in charge of 28 Task Force Battalion, Mubi,
Adamawa, Major Badare Akintoye, confirmed the incident.
Chairman
of Madagali Council, Yusuf Mohammed, while also acknowledging the tragedy, said
the blast occurred in the early hours of Friday.
According
to him, the attack also destroyed food items worth several millions of naira
aside from the lives lost.
Badare
while explaining how the incident happened, said, “The attack was carried out
by two female school children, they detonated two bombs at the same time
killing the victims while they also died in the process. We have reinforced
security in the area to avoid enemies coming in to cause further mayhem.”
Police
Public Relations Officer in Adamawa State, Othman Abubakar, said they were on
top of the situation as their men were deployed to secure the area.
The
Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar, told one of our
correspondents that the attack was caused by desperation of the Boko Haram
insurgents. He said the group had become weak and had decided to use “sleeper
cell” to carry out attacks on citizens.
Meanwhile,
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday condoled the families of victims of the
tragedy.
In
a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba
Shehu, the President also condoled with the government and people of the
state over the unfortunate incident.
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