According to ABUJA- DIRECTOR-
General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Sanni Sidi over yesterday’s bomb blast that happened as
a parked car with explosives exploded.
Speaking with Journalists at Asokoro
General Hospital, Abuja, Sidi who noted that the gravity of the blast was not
as strong as the previous one, stressed that yesterday’s blast happened fifty
metres away from the last one, at the same Nyanya, outskirts of Abuja leaving more than 40 dead and many injured....
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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