Many feared dead, as suicide bombers hit Damboa
By NIGERIAN police and military officials say that many casualties may have occurred as six suicide bombers barged into a Sallah crowd and killed at least 20 people on the spot in a village near Damboa.
Angry residents of Damboa, however, dismissed the suicide bombers theory insisting that it was a misguided missile from the Nigerian Army tank that hit their people.
When contacted Borno State Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu, however, said Sunday that people were celebrating the end of Ramadan fast on Saturday when they were hit by the explosions in Abachari town near Damboa area.
He said that in addition to the fatalities, forty-eight other people fatally injured on the spot were rushed to treatment centres.
Responding to the allegation too, Major General Rogers Nicholas, however, said that army troops in the area were there to stabilize the situation and maintain general safety and will not hurt civilians.
He dispelled as rumours the allegation that the explosions were from military artilleries.
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Some of the injured have been taken to the red cross clinic in Damboa and General hospital Biu and Maiduguri while very critical cases went to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital UMTH.
Sources say between Forty to fifty may have been referred by the red cross to general hospitals since the Damboa General hospital is still under rehabilitation.
“The ICRC is our only saving grace on ground,” said a local government official who spoke to the Tribune Online.
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