6 female bombers hit Damboa, 32 killed
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modu-zannah maina the district head of damboa who described the incident as shocking and disturbing said the attack was perpetrated by female suicide bombers1 no fewer than 32 persons were killed while 84 others were injured when six suicide bombers detonated improvised explosive devicesieds in damboa local government area in borno state on saturday night1 malam buba shettima a witness said that two separate bomb blasts occurred in shuwari and abbachari at about 830 p.m1 the whole of damboa was shaken by the unfortunate incident. we all scampered for safety as the blasts were coming from different directions. there were bodies everywhere1 we suspected that the many deaths recorded were a result of the military artilleryhe said1 mohammed hassan another local from the area who corroborated the claim said at about 830 pm of on saturday night an attack suspected to be from an artillery killed 31 innocent people in damboa shehuri and abachari1 the attacks came from two separate directions. my house was among some of the houses destroyedhe said1 maj.-gen. rogers nicholas commander of operation lafiya dole denied the claim saying the killings were caused by suicide attacks and not military artillery1 there was nothing like an attack from the military artillery. you can see the pictures of six female bombers who detonated their explosives and as a result 20 persons were killed while others were injured he said1 rogers urged people to disregard the claim that people were killed by the military and not by suicide bombers1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that some locals alleged that the deaths arose from a misfiring by the nigerian armys artillery but the army denied the claim1 maina lamented that a lot of people that were affected were mostly children adding that many victims were injured1 we are here in this hospital to check our people affected by saturdays bomb blasts. so far the victims have been responding to treatmenthe said1 meanwhile demian chukwu the borno commissioner of police said on saturday at about 2045hrs an explosion occurred at abachari area in the outskirt of damboa l.g.a. of borno state1 at the sound of the explosion personnel of the nigeria police and members of the civilian jtf mobilised to the scene and discovered twenty dead bodies and 48 injured persons in a suspected terrorist attack1 the wounded and the dead were evacuated to a hospital while the scene was sanitised by a deployment of police eod unit1 investigation is ongoing to unravel the nature of the attackhe said1 hajiya yabawa kolo the chairperson of the state emergency management agency sema who also confirmed the incident said the agency had deployed its personnels to evacuate wounded persons to the hospital for quick medical attention1 our team has been deployed to render life saving support to the victims of the blast. as you can see they have been tirelessly working with icrc since morning to evacuate the injured from the airport to the hospital1 we are all saddened by the unfortunate incident that occured in damboasaid kolo1