No fewer than 10 persons were believed to have been killed on Thursday evening after a suicide bomberdetonated an explosive device on him in Biu, a commercial town in Borno State.According to an eyewitness, the bomb exploded a few metres away from a fuel station in the town, which is about 160 kilometers from Maiduguri, the hotbed of Boko Haram insurgency.The source said, “The suicide bomber was a few metres from a filling station when the bomb on him detonated, killing him and nine other persons in the vicinity.”The source, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone from Biu, said the suicide bomber disembarked from a tricycle, popularly known as Keke, near the filling station.he was said to be walking in the direction of the filling station when the bomb detonated and killed 10 persons and causing injuries to several others.He said, “It is believed that the suicide bomber was heading for the filling station, where the explosion would have made a huge impact but the bomb detonated before he could get to the target.“The corpses have been evacuated to the General Hospital Biu, where the injured have also been taken for treatment.”The police command in the state had not confirmed the explosion as of the time of filing this report.
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