No fewer than 47 persons have been reported dead as explosion rocked a market in Borno State on Tuesday.
The explosion occurred at Sabon Gari community market of Damboa Local Government Area of the state.
The explosive went off at about 1:15pm, reports have it.
AFP quoted a nurse at Biu General Hospital, which is about 50km away from the scene of the blast, as saying: “We have received at least 47 dead bodies and at least 50 with injuries from the Sabon Gari market, where there was a blast this afternoon.”
“The explosion happened inside the market at the mobile phone section, near the livestock section of the market,” Yuram Bura, a member of a local vigilante group fighting Boko Haram alongside the army, also told the AFP.
“It was concealed in a knapsack used for spraying herbicides. It was smuggled into the market and apparently abandoned… This is no doubt the handiwork of Boko Haram.”