Blast kills one at Yobe football field

A bomb targeted at footballers  at a field in Yobe has killed one, witnesses said.
The explosive device suspected to have been planted in a football field in Potiskum, a commercial town in Yobe, went off at about 6.30p.m. on Sunday
killing a sugar-cane seller, a source said.
Residents of Potiskum said the blast, which was targeted at footballers using the Arikime Primary School playing ground went off at about 6:30pm. They suspected that the bombers targeted footballers and football enthusiasts who usually thronged 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 ran into the embedded explosion leading to his death.
“The death toll this morning would have been more if not for the early trigger which claimed the life of the sugar-cane seller,” another source said.
Potiskum had come under bomb attacks by Boko Haram in recent times.
Boko Haram bombers had in October killed over 25 members of an Islamic group on a peaceful procession while a suicide bomber also killed nearly 50 students of Government Science Secondary School in the town two weeks after the earlier attack.