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The Sokoto State Police have confirmed that six people died after a bomb exploded in Gwabro village, in Tangaza Local Government Area, on Sunday.
Police spokesperson Ahmad Rufai confirmed the number of people who died but did not give any more details about the explosion, which happened during the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.
An eyewitness named Hashimu said the blast happened in the afternoon.
According to Hashimu, many young people were travelling from one village to another to visit family and friends, as is the tradition during Eid.
He said the explosion happened during one of these visits.
An aide to the Tangaza Local Government Chairman, Garzali Raka, said the people who died have been buried according to Islamic customs.
The Lakurawa terrorists, who have been torturing the people of the Tangaza and Gudu local councils, may have planted the explosive, according to other village sources.
They said that members of different villages in the two local councils of Tangaza and Gudu have been terrorised by the Lakurawa terrorists, and they urged the government to respond appropriately to the terrorists’ disruption of communal harmony. (The Guardian)
