Another Emir escapes mosque suicide bombing

The Emir of Fika in Yobe State, Alhaji Mohammed Ibn
Abali Idris, on Friday in Potiskum escaped an attack
by suicide bomber at the Potiskum Central Mosque.
Narrating the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria,
the Yobe Police Command's spokesperson, Mr. Toyin
Gbadegesin, said the bomber tried to get close to the
emir after the Friday prayers, but was prevented by a
policeman.
He said as the bomber was making frantic moves to
push himself through the crowd to reach the emir, a
policeman suspected his movement and pushed him
down.
The spokesman said that upon falling down, one of
the concealed explosives detonated and killed the
bomber, while five policemen and two civilians
sustained injuries. He said that the emir escaped
unhurt.
Gbadegesin stated that the police anti-bomb squad,
thereafter, defused some other un-exploded devices
carried by the bomber.
Similarly, there was a bomb explosion at the Mahuta
area of Igabi Local Government Council of Kaduna
State on Thursday night, killing the suspected
suicide bomber on the spot.
But for the youths in the area, several lives and
property would have been destroyed.
The youths, according to an eyewitness, had
mobilised themselves to arrest the deceased, but
unknown to them, the suspect was primed with an
Improvised Explosive Device.
The eyewitness told our correspondent that the
bomber and others had entered the Afaka district in
that area, on an alleged mission to eliminate the
District Head, Abduwahab Aliyu.
"The incident happened about 10 pm on Thursday
when some suspicious persons entered the village
and some residents started questioning them and
discovered that they werearmed.
"The youths were able to disarm one of them who
admitted that they were on a mission to kill the
village head for allegedly exposing their members."