said today.
The bombers with explosives strapped to their bodies entered the Jimeta Main
Market after sundown yesterday and “pretended to be fighting”, said area police
spokesman Othman Abubakar.
The staged fight between the two men “attracted the attention of people nearby
to see what was happening,” he told AFP.
“When people had gathered they detonated their explosives... They killed a
sizeable number of people,” he added.
The coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency in Yola, Sa’ad
Bello, gave casualty figures of 31 dead and 38 injured. There was no immediate
claim of responsibility but fingers will likely be pointed at Boko Haram, which
has carried out several attacks in the north of the state in recent weeks.
Yola has also suffered attacks, but not in recent years. It had come to be seen
as a relative safe haven for hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their
homes further north because of the violence. The Yola attack came hours after a
suspected suicide bombing at a checkpoint outside a military barracks in
Maiduguri that killed four people.
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