Two female suicide bombers were suspected of being
behind a blast on Monday outside a stadium in northeast Nigeria, where
President Goodluck Jonathan had given a speech, officials and rescue workers
said.
“We have evacuated two bodies of females we believe
were suicide bombers behind the blast,” said one rescue worker after the
explosion in Gombe city.
“One of them was blown to pieces… Eighteen people
were injured in the blast and have been taken to hospital,” said the worker,
who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak to the
media.
Jonathan, who is campaigning for re-election in
February 14 polls, had just left the venue after giving an address to
supporters of his ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when the blast
occurred.
A federal government official involved in the
rescue operation and a medical source at the Gombe State Specialist Hospital
gave identical tolls.
“Two bodies have been brought to the hospital along
with 18 people wounded victims in the stadium explosion,” said the hospital
source.
“The dead bodies were of females,” the source
added. Reporters who visited the hospital gave a similar account.
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