"It was a suicide bombing," said Saidu Ahmed Minin, head of operation of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Gombe.
"Six people were killed including the bomber and 11 others were injured. We evacuated them to the hospital."
Witnesses said the blast went off at 7:25 pm in the packed market neighbourhood of Kasuwar Arawa.
"The bomber went into the crowd of people waiting to recharge their telephones" at a public charging station "and then set off the explosive," taxi driver Idris Babandada told AFP by telephone. "The explosion shook the whole neighbourhood."
No one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack but Boko Haram militants are increasingly powerful in the Northeast and Gombe has been hit by several suicide bombers recently, most of them at bus stations and near military installations.
An aid worker in Gombe said that the injured were being treated by aid volunteers and nurses, because doctors in the city were on strike.
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