EIGHT CONFIRMED DEAD IN MAIDUGURI EARLY MORNING BLAST

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- POLICE SAY SUICIDE BOMBER WAS MALE RDING TRICYCLE

At least eight persons were recorded dead after a suicide bomber rode a tricycle laced with explosives to a crowded park near grocery market in Maiduguri Borno state capital. 

Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have confirmed five killed in the blast. 

The bomb which went off at about 7am on Friday was earlier suspected to have been detonated by a female suicide bomber. 

But police investigation revealed that the bomber was actually a male riding a commercial tricycle and had probably picked a female passenger. 

Ugly remains of the suicide
bomber

Scene of the bomb blast 

Eight persons were killed and seven others critically injured and taken to the University of Maiduguri Teaching hospital (UMTH). 

Hospital sources said five corpses were received at the morgue of UMTH. 

EARLIER THIS BLOG REPORTED THAT :- 

A female suicide bomber riding on a commercial tricycle had detonated some explosives on her body at a crowded grocery market where earlier rising petty traders go to make wholesale purchase of vegetables in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, security sources and witnesses said. 

A thunderous blast that occurred at about 6:30am resonated all over the town of Maiduguri. 

Eyewitnesses said the blast occurred near the entrance of Gamboru Market where operatives of commercial tricycles park to pick passengers that go to buy different kinds of fresh vegetables brought in by local farmers for onward sales in their different stalls. 

"The woman was said to have come on a motorcycle like every other person who come very early in the morning to make purchases here does.", said Bukar Shettima, a trader in the market. 

As the Keke Napep (tricycle) was parking near others that were already parked, the bomb went off killing herself, the driver and many others that were around. I lost my balance due to the impact of the reverberating blast; but thank God I was not too close. But I saw nauseating corpses and battered bodies of humans littering the ground as I joined other people to escape the area", said Witness Shettima. 

A hand bag filled with bombs retrieved from a shot
female suicide bomber in Damaturu 2 weeks ago

A local security official in Maiduguri, Abba Shehu, has also confirmed the blast, saying that "it occurred at about 6:30am; and from what my younger brother who lives very close to the area told me, many people have been killed in the attack carried out by a woman". 

Details of casualty has not been ascertained yet.

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