Deadly Market Explosion Kills 32 in Borno State

Hospital and local government officials in Bama local government area of Borno State yesterday said the death toll from the Thursday bomb blast in Ngurosoye village market had risen to 32, as more victims died in hospital.

A hospital source in Bama town where most of the injured traders that survived the blast were taken for treatment said aside the 29 people that got killed in the blast, another three seriously injured died within Friday and Saturday while receiving medication for their injuries.

A bomb planted in the market and detonated by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Ngurosoye village market had on Thursday  left many dead and injured.

Security sources had earlier put the death toll at "16 deaths and several injured victims"; but later, local government officials announced that 29 people died in the blast.

Ngurosoye is a village not more than 30km away from Bama town. A top security person who confirmed the incident said "the bomb was unfortunately planted in the market even before the traders began to arrive for their normal weekly trading. It was very bad because about 16 people were killed in the market while several others sustained injuries".