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Damaturu, the capital of Gombe state, is under attack from Boko Haram terrorists.Fighters overran a checkpoint on the edge of the city and explosions and gunfire could be heard, witnesses said.
Nigerian troops backed by a fighter jet were said to trying to drive the militants back.
The insurgents, according to witnesses from Gombe, are currently being repelled by soldiers some three kilometers away from the town.
A source from Gombe, Mallam Ha$an, told PREMIUM TIMES....
“we’ve all rushed back to our homes now, our town is under attack; we heard that Boko Haram terrorists, in their hundreds, are trying to invade the town”.
“Everywhere is quiet now, but the sounds of shooting and explosion is deafening. We hear the soldiers are battling to stop them”.
The Boko Haram terrorist group has repeatedly attacked the town, bombing bus stations and other locations.
Saturday’s attack comes less than two weeks after a suicide bomber struck in the city shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned there.
Jonathan was in Gombe for a rally on February 2, and a female suicide bomber struck shortly after the campaign train had departed.
The suicide bomber and a pa$erby died in the attack, while six people were injured, the police said at the time.
Two weeks ago a bomb was detonated in a tricycle station on Abubakar Habu Hashidu Road some 200 meters from the stadium in Gombe state where a PDP presidential rally was being held.
Saturday’s attack comes less than two weeks after a suicide bomber struck in the city shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned there.
Jonathan was in Gombe for a rally on February 2, and a female suicide bomber struck shortly after the campaign train had departed.
The suicide bomber and a pa$erby died in the attack, while six people were injured, the police said at the time.
Two weeks ago a bomb was detonated in a tricycle station on Abubakar Habu Hashidu Road some 200 meters from the stadium in Gombe state where a PDP presidential rally was being held.
I pray God gives our army d grace to win this. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
ReplyDeleteWhen will this madness stop!
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We go defeat them soon...but y is d northern elite class enjoying this evil....this guys are being sponsored for sure....
ReplyDeleteHmm,their terror wuld soon end
ReplyDeleteThis is the time I wished I was in the army to roast those mofos. Great Nigerian army come on grow some balls
ReplyDeleteAgain, I said this six weeks will be interesting. I pray the country donkt plunge into negatives.
ReplyDeleteBut am always amaze that our securities can only repel instead of attack these BH and deal with them once and for all. It will be shameful that all these years, out intelligent outfits can't trace the locations and hideouts of these terrorists.
Nawa o BK market de sale wella for that state God do something nao be something do person o
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