Nigeria: Suicide bombers strike again in Gombe

At least 37 people were killed and 105 others wounded in the July 22, 2015 multiple attacks.

At least 86 people have died from suicide bombings in Nigeria’s north eastern town of Gombe between Thursday, July 16, 2015 and Wednesday, July 22, 2015. In last Thursday’s attack, explosions targeting people shopping for the Eid feast at a market resulted in the death of 49 people.

Just a few days after the incident, suicide bombers on July 22, 2015 carried out multiple attacks in the town killing at least 37 people and wounding 105 others, Reuters reported.

"Twin explosions.... led to 37 dead, and 105 injured are currently receiving treatment at the specialist hospital and Federal Medical Centre, Gombe," Reuters quoted a Red Cross official as saying. The recent multiple attacks were at two bus stations. There was no immediate claim for the bombings but they bore the hallmarks of Islamist jihadist group Boko Haram. Reuters cites two eyewitnesses who said the first bomb, which exploded around 7 p.m. local time was detonated by a suspected suicide bomber at a mosque at Dadin Kowa motorpark as people gathered to pray.

"I heard two loud explosions, one after the other; I saw people coming out of the mosque with blood gushing out ... I counted about seven dead bodies," Reuters quoted a Ahmed Abu, a bus driver as saying. Umaru Sani, a shopkeeper, is also cited as having said that a second bomb went off at Nasarawo junction near the same bus station, where people were selling vegetables.

An official with the National Emergency Management Agency said at least seven people had been killed but they were still picking up bodies from the blast sites. Two other blasts occurred at the gate of the major Duku bus station and a small nearby market.

"I was going towards my house when I heard two loud explosions coming from Kasuwar Mata ... on arrival at the scene, I saw many dead bodies, I cannot count how many because it was getting dark," Reuters quoted Hussaini Adamu, a farmer as saying.

Police spokesman Fwaje Ajiri reportedly said he could not give a death toll yet but confirmed that there were blasts in both areas about an hour apart. He confirmed there was at least one blast in each location.

The Gombe bomb attacks which are just a tip of the iceberg, come at the moment the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been seeking assistance from the United States of America to combat the Boko Haram terrorist group, corruption, as well as recover over 150 billion U.S. Dollars of Nigerian money stolen and stashed abroad