Bomb Explosion hits Damaturu, police confirm 7 dead, 32 injured

A bomb blast has hit “Damaturu Market in Yobe State”. Details were sketchy however an occupant of the town told columnists that the business sector is generally “intensely populated”.

Reuters said the blast happened particularly at ” a jammed transport station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu on Sunday, bringing about losses in an area that has been every now and again assaulted by Islamist aggressors”.

It reported a witness, Adamu Muhammad who said the town “slid into frenzy” after the bomb impact at Damaturu’s motor park .

The assault on Damaturu came a day after Nigerian military repulsed an assault on Gombe by Boko Haram terrorists on Saturday.