2015-04-04 12:04
Kano - The death toll from an explosion near a bus station in
Gombe, northeast Nigeria, has risen to 10, a doctor and nurse at the
hospital treating the injured said on Friday.
"We received 10 dead
bodies from the blast at the Bauchi motor park [bus station]," a doctor
at the Gombe Specialist Hospital said, requesting anonymity as he is
not authorised to speak to the media.
"Five of the dead were
claimed by relatives. We still have five others in the morgue. Eight
people are now in the emergency ward being treated for wounds sustained
during the blast."
The blast happened at about 18:30 on Thursday
after a woman enquired about the destination of a bus leaving for the
central city of Jos at the terminus, witnesses said.
It
bore the hallmarks of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, who have
hit a number of bus stations and crowded markets in recent weeks,
including with suicide bombers.
A nurse at the Gombe Specialist
Hospital, who also asked to remain anonymous, confirmed the death toll
and said of the injured: "Eight people are now responding to treatment.
"The wounds are mostly cuts and burns."
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