NEWS: Another Bomb Blast In Postikum, Yobe State

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By Dickson Blessing
   
Six persons have been killed in another suicide bombing yesterday at the resident of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate.
Eyewitnesses revealed that the bomb blast occurred around 1:20pm on Sunday right in front of the residence of Sabo Garbu, the PDP candidate for potiskum/Nangere federal constituency in the state.
The bomber had gone right into the residence where the party candidate was hosting a lot of party supporters and detonated the explosives. Six persons were confirmed dead while several injured.
Though authorities are yet to confirm the incident, hospital personnel disclosed that six dead person were brought in from the blast along several injured persons.
There are raised suspicions that the attack was the making of the Boko Haram sect which has carried out previous attacks both in Yobe and other states of Nigeria.