A loud explosion rocked an area Abuja on Thursday followed by smoke and ambulances headed in the direction of the blast, with injuries reported.
Reports have it that the bomb blast in Abuja Thisday office in Jabi was carried out by a suicide bomber who drove into the media house before detonating the bomb hence blowing away the building ‘s roof.
But Mr Yushau Shuaib a National Emergency Management Agency spokesman said the blast “occurred inside the premises of a national newspaper,” adding that “a preliminary investigation seems to indicate that the explosive device was planted somewhere within the premises, not likely a case of suicide bombing.”
An AFP correspondent heard the blast and saw ambulances heading towards a district where a bus station and newspaper office are located.
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| Policemen examine the engine of the jeep used for the attack - AFP |
“NEMA officials are on the ground,” said Yushau Shuaib. “They are trying to move those injured to the hospitals, but we don’t have any information on casualties yet.”
The explosion in Abuja occurred around 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the offices of ThisDay. An Associated Press reporter who heard the explosion said it was very large. Police and paramilitary forces have already surrounded the office.
Witnesses said another explosion struck the newspaper's offices in the city of Kaduna.
6 comments:
Those Boko Haram people are devils. Real devils. God go punish them.
They are bombing the wrong folks. Let them go to the National Assembly and bomb those folks milking the nation dry.
The day Boko Haram succeeds in dictating what gets reported in the media and how it is reported, then we are gone as a nation. The media fraternity must resist this intimidation in all forms. If anything journalists must become more vocal in their opposition of this evil called Boko Haram.
The arrested would-be suicide bomber must be guarded round the clock and given protection far beyond that given to President Jonathan. He MUST be used to trail the bomb route back to the sponsors. The SSS must apply the TRUTH SERUM in this instance. There is a direct link from this man to the big sponsors of boko haram and we can use him to get to them. UNLESS of course President Jonathan does not want the sponsors named because this is what it is now looking like seeing that a lot of these terrorists have been arrested before now and nothing has come of it.
There is no pretense about it. We need to negotiate our common existence now. It is now or never.
All regions should prepare their own militants for action. I am going to register with MASSOB. Any more killing of Ndigbo, we will finish all Hausa people in the east. Fire burn them.
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