A round of suicide bomb attacks targeted at the convoy of the Taraba State Commissioner of Police, Mamman Sule, on Monday led to the killing of five persons and the destruction of a portion of the Taraba State Ministry of Finance in the state capital, Jalingo, and a nearby market.
It also consumed valuable documents, vehicles and property.
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The News Agency of Nigeria quotes the spokesman for the state police command, Ibiang Mbasike, as saying that the bombs exploded at about 8.45a.m when workers were resuming for work after the weekend break.
The blasts were triggered by two suicide bombers riding motorcycles but reports said Sule escaped unhurt.
However, three police officers and the two suspected suicide bombers were among those killed while a dozen others were injured.
Some accounts said as many as 10 persons died in the blasts. One of the explosives hit the rider leading the police commissioner’s convoy.
The police headquarters in Taraba is 40 metres away from the main entrance to the finance ministry. The ministry’s premises forms part of the entrance into the building leading to the police commissioner’s office.
“The police commissioner usually has to go through the Ministry of Finance to enter his office.
“He was passing by that usual route when the explosives were thrown. So the Police Commissioner’s convoy was clearly the target,” a top police source, who preferred anonymity, told NAN.
More details later.
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