"There was an explosion at the Dukku motor park. The Red Cross mobilized with 20 body bags and they have all been exhausted," an official from the Red Cross said to the agency. "We are still looking for more bodies among the carnage."
The Dukku motor park is in the town of Gombe, the capital of Gombe state which has been subject to a series of terror attacks in recent months, suspected to have been carried out by the militant group Boko Haram. According to Nigerian news portal Naij.com, a bus station in the town was previously hit by a bomb attack in the morning of October 31, killing up to 30 people, while on November 4 a police station was burnt down, as a result of which six people were reported to have lost their lives.
The state of Gombe borders with the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, which were declared in May 2013 to be in a state of emergency by the Nigerian government, because of the activities of Boko Haram. According to the UN Refugee Agency, more than half a million civilians have been internally displaced due to violent clashes in the north of Nigeria between government forces and armed militants, and others have taken refuge in the neighboring countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
