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... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, where President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
had given a speech, officials and rescue workers said.
"We have evacuated two bodies of females we believe were suicide bombers behind the blast," said one rescue worker after the kaboom in Gombe city.
"One of them was blown to pieces... Eighteen people were maimed in the blast and have been taken to hospital," said the worker, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Jonathan, who is campaigning for re-election in February 14 polls, had just left the venue after giving an address to supporters of his ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when the blast occurred.
A federal government official involved in the rescue operation and a medical source at the Gombe State Specialist Hospital gave identical tolls.
"Two bodies have been brought to the hospital along with 18 people maimed victims in the stadium kaboom," said the hospital source.
"The dead bodies were of females," the source added. Reporters who visited the hospital gave a similar account.