Reports from the area indicated that the incident occurred in the afternoon when the suspect who posed as a cattle dealer detonated the explosives on entry into the market.
Another version of the story however, had it that the bomb had earlier been planted within the area of vegetable sellers in the market from where the explosive went off.
Garkida town shares borders with Borno State and the Sambisa forest, the dreaded base of the Boko Haram insurgents.
The member representing Gombi constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Jerry Kumdisi confirmed the incident even as the police authorities could not confirm or deny the attack, saying that the incident fell within the purview of the military.
Garkida, where the early missionaries settled in Adamawa State and had witnessed series of Boko Haram attacks in the past.