
Atleast
seven people have died and more than thirty have sustained serious injuries
after a bomb exploded at a busy market in Damaturu the capital of Yobe state in
Northern Nigeria. The bomb is said to have been mounted on to a 10 year old
girl.
According to the chairman of Nigerian union of Road
Transport Workers, who witnessed the incident said “ we had security men at all the
gates and everybody entering the motor park was being subjected to a thorough
search before they enter the park. It was in the process of searching, that a
little girl of about 10 years old refused to be searched and before you could
blink an eye, the bomb which the girl concealed under her Hijab exploded killing
her, the security staff and other”
There
was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but it bore the
hallmark of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has been fighting a six-year
insurgency in a bid to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.
Boko Haram
took over a territory larger than Belgium last year, killing thousands of
people and displacing some 1.5 million. The militants took over most of Borno
state and parts of Adamawa and Yobe.