30 killed in northeast Nigeria attack: official

At least 30 members of the Islamic Shiite group have been confirmed dead in Monday's attack by suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber while on a procession in Potiskum in Nigeria's northeast Yobe State.

The Executive Secretary of Yobe Hospitals Management Board, Mamman Mohammed, said that 30 deaths and 89 injured persons were recorded.

He told Ibrahim Gaidam, the governor of Yobe who paid a visit to the victims at the Potiskum General Hospital that some of the victims with severe injuries had been referred to tertiary health institutions in Azare and Nguru.

Gaidam directed that free treatment be given to the victims, saying "the government will bear all the medical bills of the victims, including those referred to other hospitals outside the state".

He also condoled with the Shiite group on the death of their members. Enditem