Nigeria: Dozens feared dead as bomb rocks Yobe grocery store

A female suicide bomber blew herself at a bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu, Yobe State on Sunday, killing herself and seven others.

The police commissioner of Yobe State, Marcos Danladi told AFP, “There has been an attack on the Damaturu Central Motor Park by a female suicide bomber. So far, seven people have been confirmed dead and 32 others injured.”

Witnesses said the assailant entered the motor park in a vehicle, got out and walked towards a small grocery store at the end of the terminal.

She then positioned herself amid the crowd outside the store and blew herself up, said one shop owner at the terminal, who requested anonymity.

The shop owner told AFP that an angry mob prevented emergency workers from evacuating the remains of the bomber.

“They gathered the pieces (body parts) and set them on fire,” he said.

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, suspicion immediately fell on Boko Haram.

The Islamists militants have been blamed for increasingly using women and girls as human bombs across northern Nigeria.