Gombe Currently Under Boko Haram Attack

                      The insurgents, according to witnesses from Gombe, are currently being repelled by soldiers some three kilometres away from the town.
                      A source from Gombe, Mallam Hassan, told PREMIUM TIMES on phone that “we’ve all rushed back to our homes now, our town is under attack; we heard that Boko Haram terrorists, in their hundreds, are trying to invade the town”.
                       “Everywhere is quiet now, but the sounds of shooting and explosion is deafening. We hear the soldiers are battling to stop them”.
                        The Boko Haram terrorist group has repeatedly attacked the town bombing bus stations and other locations.
Saturday’s attack is coming less than two weeks after a suicide bomber struck in the city shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned.

Mr. Jonathan was in Gombe for a rally that February 2, when a female suicide bomber struck shortly after the campaign train departed.

The female suicide bomber and a passerby died in the attack, while six persons were injured, the police said at the time.

It will be recalled that two weeks ago PDP presidential rally went sour as bomb was detonated in a tricycle station along Abubakar Habu Hashidu Road some 200 meters from the stadium in Gombe state.