A suicide bomber had in the evening of Tuesday, january 13, 2015 blown himself uo in a afiled attempt to set off a explosives at military Checkpoint in the Kasuwar Mata area of Gombe state.
The incident reportedly took place while most of the residents of the Muslim-dominated state were saying their evening prayers in the Mosque.
Sources disclosed that the suicide bomber had stormed the troubled state wearing a vest laden with Improvised Explosive Devices.
He was not lucky enough as the bomb detonated and shattered his body at about 6:30 PM as he approached a military checkpoint on a motorcycle.
AFP reported that a young boy standing by the roadside was injured in the blast.A resident in the area identified as Badamasi Mustapha while narrating the blast said, “We were inside the mosque praying when we heard a loud explosion.“When we rushed out we found a motorcycle on fire and dismembered body parts of a man just 100 metres (yards) from the checkpoint.”
According to Vanguard reports, Mustapha said residents believed the bomber planned to hit the checkpoint, which is manned by a joint military and police squad fighting the city’s notorious “Kalare” street thugs.
It was gathered that residents had gathered his charred remains and set them on fire.
