The insurgents, according to witnesses from Gombe, are currently being repelled by soldiers some three kilometres away from the town.
An eyewitness said that they’ve all rushed back to their homes now and the town is under attack; “we heard that Boko Haram terrorists, in their hundreds, are trying to invade the town”.
“Everywhere is quiet now, but the sounds of shooting and explosion is deafening. We hear the soldiers are battling to stop them”.
The attack is coming less than two weeks after a suicide bomber struck in the city shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned.
Mr. Jonathan was in Gombe for a rally that February 2, when a female suicide bomber struck shortly after the campaign train departed.
The female suicide bomber and a passerby died in the attack, while six persons were injured, the police said at the time.
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