Eye witness accounts say casualties are high but can’t confirm the exact figures.
At
about 6.45 am this morning a car bomb
blast occurred at Nyanya Motor park at the federal capital territory Abuja
where over 200 people have been said to lost their lives. NSCDC officials, Fire
Service, NEMA, the DSS and Police have been dispatched to the scene of the
incident to battle the incident.
One
of the victims at Nyanya Park, Kunle Bamidele, told Channels Television that he
was on a queue to get on a bus when he and other passengers heard a loud blast
and ran away for
safety.
Channels
Television also spoke to the Head of Anti-Terror Unit of the NSCDC, whose
men have been at the scene to control the situation.
“Yes
the situation is exactly what you are seeing on ground, there has been an explosion
of high magnitude and several lives have been lost, even as you are looking on
the ground you’ll see patches of human flesh.
“We
are here as first responder to try to fight the situation on the humanitarian
intervention… It is a suspicion that it was a bomb placed on the ground, so we
have asked the office to send in more people.
So far no group has
claimed responsibility. But it is believed that the dreaded Boko Haram may be
behind it.
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