2 female bombers kill 8 in Potiskum

Twin explosions carried out by two female Boko Haram
bombers yesterday killed at least eight people while 46 were
injured in Potiskum, Yobe State. Hospital sources said five
bodies were deposited and 46 injured persons admitted after
the terrorists who rode in a tricycle, detonated explosive
devices in a GSM market.
Witnesses said the two ladies rode into the GSM market at
about 3.30pm yesterday with nobody suspecting anything.
“Some of us saw them, but never thought they were
bombers”, one of the eyewitnesses, who did not want her
name in print, told Daily Sun on phone.
She said one of the ladies alighted from the tricycle and went
into the market while her accomplice remained in the tricycle.
“I was in the market with my sister to repair my phone. It was
not more than five minutes later that we heard the explosions.
Before we could leave, another sound from the second lady in
the tricycle came,” she said.
Apart from the two suicide bombers and the tricycle rider that
died, the blasts also killed five others, a security source said.
The attack came barely a day after another blast killed two
policemen. The police in Potiskum were said to have
impounded a car laden with bomb on Saturday afternoon and
took the car to their station with the suspect.
However, the situation went awry as the car exploded hours
later, killing two policemen in the station while some were
injured. A source who declined to be mentioned, said the
suspect who drove the explosive-laden car eventually escaped
in the ensuing confusion after the blast.