A suspected suicide bomber who could not pass the gate of the police headquarters detonated the explosives in his car, killing, yet to be confirmed number of people.
The explosion shattered windows at the police headquarters building along the Damaturu road, opposite Government Secondary school.
Several vehicles within the police headquarters building and outside were damaged.
A police officer at the scene, who could not be named, also confirmed the bomb blast, saying five police vans had been loaded with dead bodies.
Members of emergency services are currently at the scene of the explosion.
Earlier in the day, the commander of the Joint Task force (JTF), Victor Ebhaleme, confirmed that another suspected suicide bomber was killed by the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) he was trying to plant at Gidan Dambe area of the city at about 6:00am.
Mr. Ebhaleme said that when his officers arrived the Gidan Dambe explosion scene, “they found a man we believe to be a member of Boko Haram, dismembered by the explosion.”
He added that preliminary investigation has shown that he was killed when he was trying to plant the device.
The explosion damaged several cars and buildings around the offices of Mansur Motors around Gida Ganje.
Borno state has been the focal point of the insurgency by fundamentalist sect Boko Haram which has staged several attacks against police stations, prisons and a number of government institutions across states in northern Nigeria.
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