Blast kills 1 at Yobe football field

A bomb targeted at footballers at a playing field in Yobe town has killed one, witnesses said.
Explosive devices suspected to have been planted at a football field in Potiskum, a commercial town in Yobe on Sunday went off at about 6.30pm, killing a sugar-cane seller, a source said.

Residents of Potiskum said the blast was targeted at footballers using the Arikime Primary School playing ground went off around 6:30pm. They suspected the bombers were targeting footballers and football enthusiasts who usually besiege the playing ground every morning, adding that the sugar-cane seller became a victim hours before the targeted time. “The sugar-cane seller had just closed from sales and was heading home when the incident occurred,” a witness said.
“This innocent wheelbarrow pusher runs into the embedded explosion leading to his death. The death toll this morning would have been much if not for the early trigger which claimed the life of the sugar-cane seller,” another source who did not want to be named, revealed.
Potiskum, a bustling Yobe town has been under bomb attacks by Boko Haram in recent. Boko Haram bombers have in October killed over 25 members of an Islamic group on peaceful procession while a suicide bomber also killed nearly 50 students of the Government Science Secondary School in the town two weeks after the earlier attack.