The news of another bomb blast at Nyanya, near the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was received with shock and despair by the populace.
About 17 people are said to have lost their lives in this latest blast which was said to be of a lower intensity than the previous one.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sanni Sidi has explained the circumstances that led to yesterday’s explosion.
Sidi said during a meeting with journalists at the Asokoro General Hospital that the blast occurred after a parked car exploded.
Vanguard reports:
Sidi said that yesterday’s blast happened fifty metres away from the last one, but the same Nyanya, outskirts of Abuja.
Also speaking with Journalists at same Asokoro Hospital, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala who described the incident as unfortunate especially coming barely some weeks after the last one, however assured residents of the territory of government’s readiness to provide security as well as protect lives and property, adding that it was early to give numbers of casualties as he was at the hospital to assess the level of services be rendered by his staff.
Giving the number of injured persons at the various hospitals, Secretary, Health and Human Services, Ademola Onakomaiya who disclosed that the total number of those who sustained injuries and Asokoro, Maitama General Hospitals and National Hospital were 41 with 30 at Asokoro, 2 in Maitama and 9 at National Hospital, adding that arrangements have been put in place as 20 bed spaces have been created in three hospitals where those at Asokoro would be taken to.
According to him, 8 for Maitama, 8 in Wuse General Hospital and 4 in Gwarimpa Hospital. Meanwhile, as at the time of filing this report, relations, friends of affected persons were outside the gate of Asokoro hospital as they were still locked outside.
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