Bomb blast after Jonathan’s presidential rally in Gombe

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President Jonathan with the Emir of Gombe today

A blast ripped through a car park outside a stadium where  President Goodluck Jonathan had addressed a re-election campaign rally on Monday, minutes after he left, witnesses said. Mohammed Bolari, who was at the rally in Gombe, said the explosion happened at 3:10 pm  just three minutes after Jonathan’s departure.
A local reporter added:

The president had just passed the parking lot and we were trailing behind his convoy when the explosion happened… just 100 metres (yards) from the bus we were driving in.”

Three people has been reported dead and 18 others injured.

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