Saturday 3 October 2015

15 dead, 41 wounded in Abuja multiple bomb blasts – NEMA Spokesman




The Friday night multiple bomb blasts in Abuja killed at least 15 people, the National Emergency Management Agency said Saturday.

The explosions Friday night were in Nyanya and Kuje, both satellite towns of Abuja, MEMA spokesman Sani Datti said in a statement. He said 13 people died in the blast in Kuje and two in Nyanya. At least 41 people were wounded, Datti said.

According to a Punch reporter who visited one of the scenes of the blasts on Saturday, “pieces of human flesh were seen littering the roadside in a suburb of Abuja, Nyanya, where an explosive went off late on Friday”.

An eyewitness, who identified himself simply as Aminu, told the Reporter that rescue workers recovered many corpses from the scene of the blast late Friday.

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