BREAKING NEWS!!!
Sounds of gunfire and explosions are being reported from Damaturu in Yobe state.
Though details of the attackers and their targets are still sketchy at this time, Daily Trust can report that someof the attacks are concentrated around Sabon Pegi around which the governor's residence is.
A resident who was caught up in the violence told Daily Trust that he ran into a gang of young men trying to set fire to a primary school within thevicinity, Pompomari Primary School, and fled for his life thereafter. He could not not confirm if indeed they had set the school on fire.
Many residents of the town are trapped outside the town and those within have taken refuge.
The governor, Ibrahim Geidam, had only this morning set up a committeeto look into the unemployment crisis in the state.
Calls put to the JTF were not being answered.
Yobe state has suffered from at least two major attacks in the last seven months.
In November 2011, about 70 people were killed and countless others injured in an attack claimed by the Boko Haram. Gun men went through the town, attacking police stations and a building used by the JTF, shooting and throwing explosives, and burning cars with their drivers in them.
In May, gun men attacked the Potiskum live stock market, killing over 50 people and setting the market ablaze.
More details soon...
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