Again, an explosion rocked Kaduna on Monday, destroying about seven
houses, including one used as a factory to assemble explosive devices
at the Mando village, near the National Eye Hospital, Kaduna.
Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect were reported to have
escaped death in the explosion, just as the police announced the
discovery of a factory where the suspects were trying to assemble a bomb
which eventually exploded.
The explosion caused pandemonium on Ibrahim Rintiyi Street, Unguwan
Magaji, Mando village in Kaduna, even as hundreds were seen running to a
nearby military formation for safety.
“We thought it was an attack on the nearby hospital. You can see us
running for safety to the Nigerian Defence Academy, (NDA), Kaduna,” a
fleeing man said.
Meanwhile, Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, was again, on Monday,
rocked by another explosion at Pompomari area of the city, shattering
the fragile peace that returned to the state in the wake of the earlier
blast.
Consequently, residents of the area have been thrown into panic, as
many of them reportedly fled their residences as a result of the
incident.
Similarly, armed robbers, numbering about 24, killed four policemen in Zamfara State in the early hours of Monday.
Eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the incident occurred
between 6.00 a.m.and 7.00 a.m. at Jangeme village of Gusau Local
Government Area, about 25 kilometres away from the state capital.
The four policemen who were killed by the hoodlums were Sergeant
Hassan Bako; Corporal Dominic Maiwada; Constable Yahaya Ibrahim and
Inspector Lawal Ibrahim, while the identities of the two traders could
not be ascertained as of press time.
In another development, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on
Monday, admited Senator Mohammed Ndume to bail in the sum of N25
million with two sureties in like sum, adding that such sureties must be
a national officer of Ndume’s political party or a principal officer
of the National Assembly.
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