The Plateau State Commissioner of Police,
Nasiru Oki, has confirmed 13 dead and 14 injured in Thursday’s twin bomb
explosions at the Bauchi Road Motor Park, adjacent the University of Jos.
premium times counted nine corpses being
deposited at the Plateau State Specialist Hospital mortuary with 11 injured
people hospitalized at the intensive care unit of the hospital.
Among the nine corpses placed on the mortuary
floor was the body police traffic officer.
Most of the corpses had injuries to the head;
one was completely mutilated.
The management of the hospital declined
comments. However, a senior nurse, who pleaded anonymity as she was not authorised
to speak, said most of the injured victims were in stable condition Friday
morning. She called for blood donations.
Four injured victims were hospitalised at the
Bingham University Teaching Hospital. One of them died during treatment early
hours of Friday.
Meanwhile, the University of Jos spokesperson,
Abdullahi Abdullahi, has debunked reports that 12 students died in the
explosions on Thursday evening.
Mr. Abdullahi in a telephone interview on
Friday said, “The report in some national dailies that the University of Jos
lost 12 of it students to the blast was false. No student or any member of the
university community was affected by the explosions. As I speak with you the
second semester examinations are ongoing. We have intensified security of lives
and property in all our campuses.”
At the scene of the blast, it was gathered
from witnesses that four commercial drivers were killed in the explosion.
A witness, Sarki Adams, told premium times that other bodies were evacuated for burial Thursday by relations according to
Muslim rites. He said five cars were also affected and several other structures
were torched.
According to another witness at the scene on
Friday, Mustapha Kawu, who owns a shop at the park, a man and a woman suspected
to be among the suicide bombers, were lynched by angry youth.
Mr. Mustapha said the suspected bombers drove
in a saloon car, while another suicide bomber, a woman, allegedly alighted from
a Jeep.
Speaking to premium times, Ali, a relation to
one of the survivors, said his brother Umaru, who is a butcher at the motor
park, was injured in the explosion but was being treated at the Plateau
Specialist Hospital Jos.
Ali said the 42 year old butcher was about
closing for the day when the explosions occurred.
The Thursday Bauchi Road Motor Park twin bomb
explosion was the fourth since Christmas Eve, 2010 when a blast rocked Gadabiu
area, Jos north.
As a result of the recent incident, there has
been an intense stop and search of motorists by security agents within the
state capital Jos.
Attempt by the Plateau state Government to
relocate the park two years ago was met by stiff resistance, as management of
the motor park approach a court of law for redress. The park remained in use.
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