News: 19 Killed As Explosion Rocks Borno Motor Park

A suicide attack on a security post mounted by youth
volunteers, popularly known as the Civilian JTF, has left at
least 19 people dead at the Tashan Gandu Motor Park in
Biu town, Borno state, Nigeria’s North-East region.
Reports say that two suicide bombers arrived the check
point around 2:50 pm on Thursday and while the first
attacked the youth volunteers on guard, the other bomber
who attempted to trigger his explosive, while rescue efforts
were on-going, was lynched by angry youths of the area”.
A member of the Biu Youth Volunteer Group involved in the
rescue of those attacked told Channels Television on
telephone, that two suspected members of the dreaded
Boko Haram group launched the attack at the check point
of the Tashan Gandu Motor Park, targeting youth volunteers
and passengers at the park.
He said so far 15 bodies have been recovered while the
injured have been taken to the Biu General Hospital.
While the youth volunteer member put the death toll at 15,
officials at the Biu general hospital told Channels Television
that 19 bodies were brought from the scene while 17 others
are being attended to.
He also said some of the victims may be referred to other
hospitals within and outside the state.
The suicide bombing is the second this week, after 34
people were killed in a blast at a bus station in the city of
Kano, on Tuesday. The death toll was revised upwards from
the initial estimate of 10.
Another blast hours earlier, also at a bus station, killed 17 in
the commercial capital of Yobe state, Potiskum, but it was
not confirmed as a suicide attack.
On February 18, 36 people were killed when assailants in a
motorised rickshaw detonated explosives at Yarmakumi
village near Biu, with most of the victims child vendors and
beggars.
The attacks underscores the threat posed by Boko Haram,
which experts say may resort to such tactics, as they are
pushed out of captured territory in the northeast by the
Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF).
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