The high casualty figure recorded after a bomb attack in Adamawa Jimeta market on Thursday was carefully planned by the Boko Haram sect.
AFP reported on Friday that the two suicide bombers that killed at least 31 people and injured 38 others pretended to be engaged in a fight to attract a crowd.
The bombers with explosives strapped to their bodies entered the Jimeta Main Market on Thursday and “pretended to be fighting”, said area police spokesman Othman Abubakar.
The staged fight between the two men “attracted the attention of people nearby to see what was happening,” he told AFP.
“When people had gathered, they detonated their explosives; they killed a sizeable number of people,” he added.
The coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency in Yola, Sa’ad Bello, gave casualty figures of 31 dead and 38 injured.
The Yola attack came hours after a suspected suicide bombing at a checkpoint outside a military barracks in Maiduguri, the capital of neighbouring Borno State that killed four people.
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