The Yobe State Police Command on Monday said
eight persons were killed in an explosion at a police
checkpoint in Damaturu, the state capital, by
suspected Boko Haram militants.

Police Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police
Command, Mr. Toyin Gbadegesin, confirmed the
attack.

“Eight persons were killed today in the Damaturu
during a bomb incident carried out by suspected
members of Boko Haram,” Gbadegesin said.

The PPRO added that three police men and five
suspected members of the insurgent died during the
explosion, which occurred around 11am on Monday.

He stated that two security personnel were currently
at the Damaturu specialists’ hospital receiving
treatment.

Gbadegesin explained that two cars, suspected to be
carrying explosive devices, were apprehended and in
the process of attempting to convey the suspects to
the state police command, the suspected terrorists
triggered the Improvised Explosive Devices, which
killed five people on the spot while three more died
later in the hospital.

The Police spokesman said men of the Explosive
Ordinance Department of the state police command
were deployed to defuse more IEDs discovered but
had yet to explode at the scene.

He called on the people of the state to be watchful as
the terrorists now seemed to be on the rampage over
the past few days.

He urged the people of the state to always obey
security rules, insisting that the Ed-el-Fitr bombings
in Damaturu three days back would have been
averted if the law abiding people of the state had
respected the restriction of vehicular movement in
the state capital.