Apart from the dead, several others were severely injured at the attack that took place at the Federal School of Soil Conservation, Kuru, near Jos. The injured were rushed to the Vom Christian Hospital (VCH), a few kilometres from the scene of attack. This has again heightened fears that elections in the state may be brutal.
Sources at the scene of the incident confirmed the attack might have been carried out by Fulani herdsmen as the scene of the killing was near the school's livestock area.
About a month ago, the school came under similar attacks when three people lost their lives including the school's chief security officer, with a number of livestock rustled in the process.
The Police Mobile Force are said to be on the trail of the killers but there was no confirmation of any arrests because the police authorities could not be reached to comment on the development as the time of this report.
Meanwhile, the explosions came barely 24 hours after three men, who were found with an explosive device and accused of planning to disrupt a political rally organised by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), were arrested by the police.
The explosion in Yobe State took place at Damaturu, capital of the state, and it was also learnt that the explosion was detonated by suspected members of the Islamic fundamentalist, Boko Haram, to deter the policemen, who had come to the area to invade their hideout and effect their arrest.
According to the Borno State Police Commissioner, Muhammed Abubakar, one of the earlier arrested fundamentalists, Baba Gana Mohammed, led his men to the Damaturu hideout of the group.
Abubakar revealed that the fundamentalists engaged the police in fierce gun battle and also threw deadly explosives at the policemen, but later ran away after they had bombed down their hideout probably to destroy any possible evidence that could lead the police to them.
The commissioner also told journalists at a press conference in Maiduguri that the self-acclaimed leader of the group, Imam Abubakar Mohammed Shekau, said he fled after the house, believed to be his hideout, was bombed.
The police chief also said that two AK 47 rifles, several rounds of ammunitions, deadly explosives - including bombs - were recovered from the house.
According to the police commissioner: “The combined police team was sighted by the hoodlums on the way to their hideout, as a result, the fundamentalists started shelling explosives at the police team. In the process, the fundamentalists set their house ablaze while bombs continued to explode and they escaped.”
He revealed that the Anti-bomb Squad of his command had been drafted to the scene to sweep the area in anticipation of recovering more explosives.
He further revealed that two women, who were discovered to be the wives of Shekau’s lieutenant, were arrested after the raid on the house. He said both women confessed to be wives of members of the sect.
One of the arrested women told newsmen that her name was Hadiza, the younger sister to one of the wives of Muhammed Yussuf, the late leader of the sect.
Speaking on the mayhem that took place in Maiduguri on Tuesday, the police commissioner said the suspected fundamentalists already in their custody had confessed to be responsible for the sporadic gunshots at the Ramat Square venue of the city during the ANPP rally.
He said the group also accepted responsibility for the subsequent robbery incidents at the Wulari junction and Gwange area in Maiduguri.
He said two AK 47 rifle magazines, one pistol, 60 rounds of live ammunition, among others, were recovered from them during a raid on them by the police.
It was gathered that someone, who pretended to be a customer of Mohammed Mustapha, a pharmacist-cum-Islamic cleric, allegedly planted the bomb.
THISDAY learnt that the suspected bomber came to Mustapha’s pharmaceutical shop and dropped a bag which was later found to be housing an explosive, suspected to be a bomb.
One of the witnesses, who spoke to newsmen, said someone came to the shop under the pretence that he wanted to buy drugs, but dropped a bag which later turned out to be containing an explosive device.
He said the attention of the unsuspecting Mustapha was drawn to the bag by someone and believing that trouble was in the air, he (Mustapha) immediately evacuated his shop attendants from the shop.
It was learnt that the shop was rocked by a major explosion moments later and when THISDAY visited the shop located at London Cinki, within the Maiduguri metropolis, a section of it was totally razed by fire.
Also speaking on the incident in Damaturu, the Deputy Commissioner of Police for the Yobe State Command, Mr. Hyacinth Medugu, told newsmen that there was an exchange of fire between the police and the suspected members of the sect.
He said the operation was carried out by the police from Maiduguri who had information that some members of the sect that left Maiduguri were recruited into the group in Damaturu.
He explained that the police, on reaching the estate, mounted surveillance, but the suspects, who were in the house at the time of the surveillance, discovered that they were being watched and thus engaged the police in a shot-out.
He revealed that the operation left a policeman wounded while the suspects regrettably escaped in the process.
He said two women and three children were rescued from the fundamentalists and taken into police custody for investigation. He added that five fire extinguisher cylinders were recovered from the house as well.
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