Emergency services have confirmed seven people dead in an attack on a displaced persons camp by two suspected female suicide bombers.
The attack on Malkohi IDP camp in Adamawa State which happened around 11am also left 13 persons including four NEMA officials injured.
LEADERSHIP WEEKEND's investigations showed that over 300 new IDPs from Sambisa forest and Madagali local government area were admitted into the facility the day before the bomb blast occurred.
Adamawa State Commissioner for Information, Comrade Ahmed Sajoh who confirmed the attack also relayed Governor Muhammadu Umaru Bindow's directive for the state emergency management agency to pay the medical bills of the injured. The governor was in Kaduna State on an official visit when the incident happened.
Sajoh said that the state would work with other emergency management agencies to improve security at all the IDP camps in the state. He noted that security operatives were re-screening all the IDPs at the Malkohi camp.
“We have discussed with security agencies on how to fortify all the camps in the state and a re- screening of the IDPs is currently on going,” he declared.
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