FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACKS MILITARY FORMATION IN GOMBE TODAY : ‘She hugged him and…’: How female suicide bomber killed soldier, injured others in Gombe ... DailyTrust/NAN

The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that a bomb exploded at a Nigerian Army barracks in Gombe on Sunday.
Olukolade told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview from Abuja on Sunday that one soldier died while another was wounded by the explosion.
He however said normal activities had thereafter been ongoing at the barracks in Gombe where the incident occurred.

“Intelligence deduced from credible information earlier received on this plot confirms the vigilance of some members of the public,’’ Olukolade said.
NAN reports that a suspected female suicide bomber also died when the bomb exploded at a military quarter-guard in Gombe.
The Public Relations Officer of the Gombe State Police Command, Mr Fwaje Atahiri, a DSP, had earlier told NAN that he heard of the incident but did not have details.
NAN gathered that the female bomber, riding on a motorcycle and on approaching the quarter-guard of the 301 Battalion, hugged a soldier.
This had led to the bomb exploding, and killing both of them.

The source said the explosion also injured other soldiers at the quarter-guard, and they were quickly rushed to the military hospital for treatment.
A NAN correspondent in Gombe reports that immediately the explosion occurred, soldiers cordoned off the road leading to the barracks.
Also, shops and other business centres which were opened at that time were hurriedly closed by their owners when the blast occurred, while many other people ran helter-skelter.
A resident of the area, who did not want his name mentioned, told NAN he was in his house around 11.20 a.m. when he heard the blast.
He said he also heard soldiers shooting in the air, apparently to scare people.

The source said he saw some injured persons being conveyed in vehicles from the scene, while soldiers blocked the road and stopped people from going to the scene of the incident.(NAN)

A female suicide bomber earlier today killed a soldier and many others in an attack targeted at a military formation in Gombe.
The woman was said to have arrived the military quarter guard around 11:15am on a motorcycle, hugged the said soldier and detonated the explosive.
Eyewitnesses believe the bomb was detonated prematurely.
The office of the commandant of the 301 battalion is located at the quarter guard.
Read the Daily Trust report below:

The suicide bomber was instantly killed in the explosion along with the soldier, while other soldiers who sustained injuries are receiving treatment at the 301 military barracks in Gombe, Daily Trust learnt.
The military in the immediate aftermath of the attack cordoned the area from the Union Bank round about to Corner’ Alheri along the Gombe-Bui road.
Two structures constructed by the military, one inside the office from where they monitor the movement of people and another outside the office building, were destroyed by the blast.
The Gombe state police spokesman, DSP Fwaje Atajiri, and the state police commissioner Abdullahi Kudu Nma could not be reached by telephone as all their mobile phones were switched off as at the time of filling this report.