Another bomb explosion has hit Jalingo, the state capital, barely a month after a similar incident occurred, leaving many dead with several injured in Iware community of Ardo Kola Local Government.
The explosion occurred around 9pm a few metres from the military base located in the Jalingo metropolis.
Our Correspondent gathered that the explosion came from grenades thrown into the military base by a passerby.
Taraba Police Spokesman, Usman Abdullahi, told newsmen that he heard the sound and confirmed that it was an explosion, but could not ascertain if anyone died.
He promised to get back with detailed information as soon as they are available to the Command.
This brings to the third of its kind in the State in the in last two months.
Apart from the Iware incident, another explosion occurred in Nukkai area of Jalingo city last month.
In another development, eight soldiers including a Brigadier General, the Commanding Officer of the 93 Army Battalion Takum, Taraba State, were killed by unknown gunmen.
The Chairman of Takum local government area, Hon. Shiban Tikari. confirmed the incident to newsmen on telephone.
He said that himself and other security men were in the bush pushing ahead to recover bodies and other missing persons, who were on the convoy of the Army General when the attack took place.
An eyewitness, (name withled, said the incident occurred in Tanti village along Takum-Jalingo Highway.
According to source, the Brigadier General was on his way to Jalingo on Tuesday when the incident occurred.
Photographs of the slain sodiers were seen displayed as the gunmen dismembered their bodies with machete.
Although some of the locals, who spoke with our correspondent, said the GOC was still missing while some insisted that his body was among the corpses that were found so far.
“We do not want to talk much now that we have not gotten all details, I am still in the bush with some of the military men, we are pushing to get all the people that were on the convoy, is not good for me to continue to give details now that we have not gotten the true account of the incident – he said.