According to residents and witnesses, the scene of the tragedy is popular and crowded Gombe Line Transport Services Limited.
According to source
the number of dead people toll to about forty people. The locals feared that a second, repeated
blast is possible.
A resident of
the area, who introduced himself as Abdulrahman Suae, said confirmed that
people were being transported to the Gombe General Hospital. However, the
condition of these persons could not be verified.
The police
and security services have reportedly cordoned the area off. Emergency
officials are doing the best to continue evacuation of the victims to nearby
hospitals.
The official
reaction of Gombe State Command of the Nigeria Police Force is awaited. In
particularly, the media needs clarification on alleged arrest of the three
suspects behind the bloody attack.
Meanwhile, a
senior State Security Service (SSS) official has confirmed the development to
TheCable: “They (unknown suspects) left
the bomb inside one of the vehicles at the park,” he said.
At the same
time, witnesses told a reporter of Vanguard that three suspects concealed
explosive devices in bags and left them among the buses.
The closer look at the scene of the
blast, as seen by an eye-witness, is given below:
It would be noted that Gombe State has been
subject to terrorists attacks for several times in the last months.
On June 5 a
suspected suicide bomber attacked a Police Armored Personnel Carrier stationed
outside a private residence of Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo. The incident
claimed a total of five lives.
Three days
later a female suicide bomber and a soldier died in the blast near Military
Quarter Guard, Gombe State.
On July 8 professional actios of the police
helped to avert a devastating bomb explosion at one of the secondary schools in
Gombe State. The Islamist
Boko Haram sect may be behind all of the mentioned attacks.
Somebody should please ask this useless government what happens to ceasefire deal?
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