Explosion Hits Adamawa; 4 Kids Paid N2500 to Drop Bomb at Yola Army Barracks

There was a bomb attack at the Kofare
area of Yola, close to a mechanic
workshop along Numan Road on
Thursday, Punch reports.
According to the Adamawa Sector
Commander of the Federal Road
Safety Corps, Mr. Luka Ikpi, the
magnitude of the explosion which
extended to the state headquarters of
the FRSC, which made the sector to
draft its intelligence officers to the
scene of the incident which was
opposite the command.
Abraham Tunoh, a resident of the
state said the bomb was in possession
of four children.
Interrogated by the police afterwards,
two of the kids said “an unknown
person gave us N2,500 to drop the
explosive at the barracks.”
Reports say the Boko Haram insurgent
instructed them to drop the explosive
at a specific place in Bachure suburb,
near the Army Barracks mainly
inhabited by retired military
personnel.
The boys were aged between nine and
15 years. The two arrested boys said
the bag containing the explosive was
too heavy for them to carry, so they
had to sell it to a dustbin scavenger,
whom they ran into at the nearby
mechanic workshop.
The dustbin scavenger, said to have
been arrested, has been helping the
police in their investigation.
He told the police that while they were
negotiating with the four bearers of
the container, he started noticing
smoke coming from it and before he
could inquire about its content, it
exploded, shattering his legs and
injuring two of the children.
While two of them fled, the other
injured two were arrested by the
police.
The police source also revealed that in
the ensuing confusion that followed
the loud bang from the blast, two of
the bearers sneaked away from the
scene of the blast.
It will be recalled just a month ago,
there was a bomb attack at a night
market in Yola that led to the death of
many persons.