A suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed four persons and injured 21 others on Friday, along the Katarko-Goniri Road in the Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
The victims, mostly from the Gotala Community, were on their way to the popular Buniyadi market when their vehicle stepped on the suspected IED.
During a visit to Damaturu Specialist Hospital by Channels Television’s correspondent observed that the corpses of the four persons killed in the explosion had been taken home for burial while the others are receiving medical treatment at the specialist hospital and Yobe State University Teaching Hospital Damaturu, respectively.
The Gotala community is located at the fringes of the Sambisa forest where the suspected Boko haram insurgents have been operating for the past one and a half decades.