Casualty figures in yesterday luxury bus park bomb blast have risen to 122, 247ureports.com can confirm.
According to some workers of Mini-Bus Company in the garage, “it is obvious that no one will come out of the main targeted Luxury bus alive“. In the words of an Eyewitness account, “body parts were flying like chickens here and there“.
The 59-seater luxury bus [involved in the incident] was about to leave the Park on New Road Bus garage, when the bomb exploded into a ball of fire. The bus was also said to be carrying about 49 other passengers on small seats locally referred as ‘Attachments Seat”.
Many died instantly, many died on the way to a hospital, others outside of the bus sustained causalities. It is expected for “the death toll to rise above the 60 publicly announced by the police department“, states a medical practitioner at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital who explains that the critically injured were “large in number“, hinting that the death may near 150 when all the dust have settled.
Another source – within the security force, who points the primary objective of attack was the targeted premeditated killing of southern Nigerians in Kano, revealed to 247ureports.com that the death toll far exceeds the publicly stated numbers. “As of now, 122 are confirmed and more are expected“. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Musa Daura, on Tuesday, claimed that only 22 people were dead from the blast while 65 others sustained injuries.
The source went to call attention to rising tension within the ranks at the Joint Task Force [JTF] – noting that there appears a disquiet – of which – some Junior officers [under suspected sponsorships from unknown group or persons] have begun pointing accusatory fingers at The JTF boss in Kano, Lt. Ikedichi Iweha claiming he has began preparatory works to go on a revenge killing.
