Anti-bomb policeman blown up in Kaduna

BARELY a day after a pastor, mistaken for a suicide bomber was shot at the Government House, Kaduna, a police officer with the anti-bomb squad was killed in Kaduna on Tuesday while trying to defuse an object suspected to be a bomb put in a polythene bag near the Sultan Bello Mosque flyover at Ungwan Sarki, Kaduna.
The incident occurred shortly after another bomb was detonated, causing panic in the area. A police officer noticed a bag close by and moved towards it with a scanner to defuse it, but it exploded killing him immediately. Deputy Superintendent of Police Aminu Lawan said the policeman that was killed was one of their anti-bomb squad officers and investigation into the incident had commenced.
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, in a message, condoled with the police and the family of the policeman who he said died while trying to save lives.
According to an eyewitness, the first explosion occurred at about 11.33 a.m. while the second one that killed the policeman occurred at about 12.15 p.m. and rocked the  area populated largely by Muslims.
 According to him, some minutes after the first bomb exploded, another polythene bag containing some objects was discovered at another location, a few metres away from the first explosion. A mobile policeman tried to detonate the content of the polythene bag, when the content suddenly exploded, blowing the policeman into pieces.
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