Two suicide bombers hit the commercial town of Potiskum, Yobe state, on Monday morning killing 11 persons and causing injuries to eight others.

An eye witness, Abubakar Isa, told our correspondent on phone from the town that the first attack was launched at the vigilante group office located at Dorowa area.

According to him, a suicide bomber gained access to the office and detonated the Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) killing seven people on the spot. He also died in the process.



Isa said: ''A young man came to our office and we insisted that anybody that we would allow to enter must be searched and when he pretended to be opening the bag, he detonated an explosive device."

He said the explosion killed one of the commanders of the vigilante group in the town, disclosing that the suicide bomber came to the office of the vigilante group near the Nigeria Prison Service with a computer device.

Isa, who claimed that the attack at the vigilante office happened at about 12:30 pm, said: "When everyone was still shell-shocked by the attack, another explosion happened five minutes later at a drinking joint in the same vicinity.”

According to him, three persons including the bomber were killed in the explosion.

He said the bomber walked into the drinking joint, pretending to want a drink and detonated the explosive device strapped on him.

A source at the General Hospital, Potiskum, said eleven corpses were deposited at their morgue.

She also revealed that eight persons were brought to the Accident and Emergency unit of the hospital.

Monday’s attack came just one day after Boko Haram militants attacked Babbangida, the headquarters of Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe state.