According to reports, a suicide bomber struck Gwoza town in Borno State killing at least five Internally Displaced Persons and injuring several others.
Victim of the blast
Security sources and witnesses have said that at least five persons were killed on Monday, January 4 and many others in the reclaimed Gwoza town in Borno State after a suicide bomber sneaked into a resettling members of a recently displaced community.
Gwoza is about 123km southwest of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
Izge community under Gwoza Local area has been one of the deadliest strongholds of the Boko Haram insurgents until military moved in to reclaimed the place recently.
Yusuf DanIzge, whose relatives still live in the community, said he received a call from them that the border community near Cameroonian was attacked by a suicide bomber.
He said: “The bomber whom they described as a man moved into a crowded area of Izge where some of our people are now putting up under makeshift pavilions and detonated himself. Five persons were killed including the bomber and many people, amomg whom were also children were seriously injured”.
A top government official who confirmed the incident but pleaded anonymity, said a government delegation that was set to take relief items to the people of Gwoza are trapped inside the town, but had to put off the trip for fear of attack.