More than 60 people were killed in twin suicide bombings in Mubi, Adamawa state on Tuesday.

Two local residents who attended funerals of the victims revealed this to AFP.

Suicide bombers killed dozens of people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the hallmarks of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram.
One Muhammad Hamidu, said:

“I took part in the burial of 68 people. More bodies were being brought by families of the victims.”

Another, Abdullahi Labaran, said:

“We left 73 freshly dug graves where each victim was buried.”

The blasts, said to have been carried out by young boys, happened shortly after 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) in Mubi, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the Adamawa state capital, Yola.

Imam Garki, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said a joint assessment with the police and Red Cross found that 26 people were killed and 56 were injured, 11 of them critically.

They were transferred to the Federal Medical Centre in Yola for treatment. But a medical source at the Mubi General Hospital said they had received 37 bodies, while a rescue worker involved in the relief operation said he counted 42 dead and 68 injured.

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Adamawa bomb blast at the market today
“These I saw with my own eyes. We were counting as they were being taken,” said Sani Kakale.

Two local residents who attended funerals for the victims said the death toll was much higher — and could climb further.

“Before I left the cemetery I took part in the burial of 68 people. More bodies were being brought by families of the victims,” said Muhammad Hamidu.

“I think this is the worst attack Mubi has ever witnessed. The human loss is unimaginable.”

Abdullahi Labaran added:

“We left 73 freshly dug graves where each victim was buried. There are still unclaimed bodies at the hospital.

Conflicting death tolls are not unusual in Nigeria. The authorities have also previously played down casualty figures. Suspicion for the attack immediately fell on Boko Haram, the jihadist group whose quest to establish a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria has left at least 20,000 dead since 2009.

Mubi has been repeatedly targeted in attacks blamed on Boko Haram since it was briefly overrun by the militants in late 2014.

Nigeria’s government and military have long maintained that the Islamic State group affiliate is a spent force and on the verge of defeat. But there has been no let-up in attacks in the northeast, particularly in Borno state, adjacent to Adamawa, which has been the epicentre of the violence.

Last Thursday, at least four people were killed when suicide bombers and fighters attempted to storm the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, raising fresh questions about security.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been in the United States this week and met his US counterpart Donald Trump, who pledged more support in the fight against Boko Haram.

https://lailasnews.com/adamawa-bomb-blasts-update-over-60-people-now-dead/

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God help us

Buhari had to tell his boys to attack his own people too so that Donald Trump would think its not a targeted attack on Christians alone..

,,,

Allah is Great indeed.

Only 60 people?


The same people who hailed and waved boko haram flag

They were hailing boko haram

Why now
Damn we r now Afghanistan
Let's jst split dis country pls

If to say this happens to a church and Christians, the media would have been awashed with the news.

So bad, RIP to the dead

Anyways;
This is depleting the votes the dullard would have gotten from the North.

Operation Back To Daura.

Chai God this killings is too much.

The sceptre of the wicked will not come to rest over the heritage of the upright; or the upright might set their own hands to evil.(psalm 125:3)

May God deliver us from this menace

Sad news. Killings everyday

Bad news everywhere, where are we going Nigeria??

Odi egwu! Ihe na eme

Only one way outta this.

Am sorry to say this but I just have to cos the Muslims here prompted that so it goes this way,
RIP to those who are not happy with the incumbent government and know how much it is flawed but for those who are comfortable with this regime, please violently rest in pieces.

Buh, Boko haram has been decimated, technically defeated and can only attack soft targets.

Those lazy Adults in Aso rock are mad!!

hmm,I don't Even know wot 2 say. RIP 2 d dead.

this is too much abeg

Imagine. I wonder what the perpetrators really want?

Jeez. This is really serious

Pharaoh9:
Only 60 people?

How and why will you call 60 lives only?

Are they chickens?

Chai baba!!!

aonag:
Buhari had to tell his boys to attack his own people too so that Donald Trump would think its not a targeted attack on Christians alone..

I think you need sense to reason like a human being.
The victims could be anybody.

K