The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Toyin Gbadegesin, who confirmed the incident, said that the bomber blew himself and two others at the Alamin Restaurant along Damaturu road of Potiskum town.
The incident, according to him, occurred around 2:20 in the afternoon as those injured and the dead have been taken to the Potiskum General Hospital.
The PPRO also said that 12 others are currently receiving treatment having sustained injuries from the blast.
Hospital source told Channels Television that 13 people were brought to the hospital while three other corpses are being deposited at the morgue.
Potiskum is the commercial nerve centre of the troubled Yobe State located in the north east geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
The state has experienced several cases of suicide bomb attack since the commencement of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.
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