At least three persons have been killed and many others injured as an explosion rocked cattle market in Taraba State. Information  gathered that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off at Iware cattle market, in Jalingo about 5kilometres from the capital city.
 
One of the  residents of the town said that bandits in their droves stormed the cattle market and detonated what he believed were multiple explosives.
 
DSP Usman Abdullahi one of the spokesperson for the police in Taraba State, has confirmed the incident, saying “three persons were confirmed dead and 19 others injured.
 
The spokesman said “It's yet too early to know  who the attackers were. But we suspect that bandits may have carried out the attack at a drinking joint and not at a cattle market in Iware.