Suspected Boko Haram Bomb Makers Arrested in Potiskum

 
The Nigerian security operatives have detained a suspected Boko Haram bomb maker and nine accomplices in Potiskum, Yobe State on Sunday, 25 January.
According to a senior police officer, who asked for anonymity, a suspected bomb manufacturer was identified only as Ba’na had admitted making the explosives used in the November school attack, the January 10 car bombing and January 11 market blasts in Potiskum.
Besides, nine more people suspected to be behind the fabrication of bombs used in a series of Boko Haram suicide attacks were arrested. Although the information about the suspect or purported arrest is yet to be confirmed by the Nigeria Police.

The officer, who was involved in the Sunday arrest, said, “The suspect has moved to Potiskum from the state capital Damaturu three years ago and worked as a stonemason and water vendor before getting married. He was quite good at his disguise and his mason and water vending jobs gave him perfect cover.”
Potiskum, the largest commercial town in Yobe State, has been hit by a wave of bombings in recent months, including a suicide attack on a secondary school in November in which 58 people were killed. On January 18, at least four people died in an attack on a bus station, while the previous weekend two women wearing suicide vests killed six people at a market and two policemen died in a car bombing outside a police station.

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