Breaking: Scores feared killed as multiple blasts rock Damaturu..

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Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Wednesday, hit the Buhari Housing Estate, in Damaturu, Yobe State.
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Yobe State’s Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA) has confirmed 16 people dead to the press.
Residents of Damaturu say that explosions were heard in the early hours of today.
Reports say the first attack was reportedly carried out by three teenage boys at a mosque inside Buhari Estate.
According to an eyewitness, the suicide bombers went near the mosque, one of them hugged the other, then they blew themselves up.
SEMA reports that injured persons have been taken to Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital, along the Damaturu-Biu Road, for treatment.

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