Explosion in Adamawa kills 35

A bomb explosive on Thursday morning has left no less than 35 people with five Army personnel and a local hunter dead around Mararaba-Mumbai area of Adamawa State. Stated by Vanguard, a Yola resident told journalists that a joint team of the military and local hunters on everyday patrol of the region following their effective recapture of the Mubi town when the bomb fixed by the insurgents detonated killing 35 people promptly.

The eyewitness said the place of the blast was a crowded area where people returning to the area after the recapture of Mubi gather to do one business or the other. He added that the explosives might have been fixed there overnight and the bomb went off while people were gathered there in the morning.
Citing from another eyewitness, he said “My house is some meters from the scene of the incident. I stood outside my compound watching the suburb and all of a sudden, I heard a loud bang which shook the entire surroundings. The few people that were returning to the area started fleeing and the area was immediately cordoned off by the military”.
In combating this insurgent, the State Government has disclosed the intention of training 10,000 local hunters in view to end the scenario.