UPDATE: 27 Dead and 96 Injured in Yola Mosque Bomb Attack - NEMA

 

Many worshippers were on Friday killed in a bomb blast during the launch of a Friday mosque near old hajj camp in Jambutu in  Yola, the Adamawa state capital. (Click here to see photos from the blast).

 

Witnesses say the blast, which occurred at about 1:40 p.m, minutes to  the commencement of Friday prayers, shook the town as it was heard across Yola and environs.

 

The bomb was reportedly detonated by a young suicide bomber in the vicinity of the mosque.

 

"A young man sneaked into the vicinity of the mosque immediately after the prayer commenced and detonated it leading to massive casualty," a witness said.

 

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has released the casualty figure in Friday’s bomb attack.

 

A spokesperson for the agency, Sani Datti, said 27 persons were killed in the incident that occurred during Juma’at prayer.

 

Ninety-six others were injured and evacuated evacuated to the Federal Medical Centre, Yola and the Specialist Hospital Jimeta , Adamawa state, he said.