The Kano State Police Command yesterday confirmed that 186 persons were killed in the multiple bomb attacks masterminded by Boko Haram members last Friday. The breakdown showed that the victims include 29 policemen, three were operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) while one was a Customs office, among others.
Also killed were two Immigration staff, one journalist. The remaining 150 victims were civilians.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, who disclosed this in a statement, said the area affected include the Police zonal headquarters along Bayero University Road where a suicide bomber drove a car forcefully through the gate and detonated a bomb, which destroyed part of the building.
He said some terrorists launched an attack in the Farm Centre and Zaria Road police divisions, the Immigration office located at Farm Centre, SSS headquarters at Giginya quarters, the official home of AIG Zone I and St Louis Secondary School simultaneously.
The police noted that at the command headquarters, two cars, heavily-loaded with explosive devices primed for suicide attacks, were repelled by the police.
The first suicide bomber, he stated, was driven through the JFK end of Bompai Barracks and was resisted y officers on duty.
The statement noted that the second vehicle, Toyota Camry, was sporadically fired at by police, ran into the wall and could not have access into the state command headquarters, the driver while attempting to escape was gunned down and the explosives were demobilised.
He explained that the state command was able to recover 10 different brands of motor vehicles comprising of Honda CRV, Toyota Camry of different models, Honda Brahma, Golf, Toyota first lady and recovered loaded with improvised explosive devices at places like Sheka quarters, NNPC Mega filling station Hotoro, Tishama Goron Dutse, Miller road and police headquarters road Bompai in the metropolis.
Also killed were two Immigration staff, one journalist. The remaining 150 victims were civilians.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, who disclosed this in a statement, said the area affected include the Police zonal headquarters along Bayero University Road where a suicide bomber drove a car forcefully through the gate and detonated a bomb, which destroyed part of the building.
He said some terrorists launched an attack in the Farm Centre and Zaria Road police divisions, the Immigration office located at Farm Centre, SSS headquarters at Giginya quarters, the official home of AIG Zone I and St Louis Secondary School simultaneously.
The police noted that at the command headquarters, two cars, heavily-loaded with explosive devices primed for suicide attacks, were repelled by the police.
The first suicide bomber, he stated, was driven through the JFK end of Bompai Barracks and was resisted y officers on duty.
The statement noted that the second vehicle, Toyota Camry, was sporadically fired at by police, ran into the wall and could not have access into the state command headquarters, the driver while attempting to escape was gunned down and the explosives were demobilised.
He explained that the state command was able to recover 10 different brands of motor vehicles comprising of Honda CRV, Toyota Camry of different models, Honda Brahma, Golf, Toyota first lady and recovered loaded with improvised explosive devices at places like Sheka quarters, NNPC Mega filling station Hotoro, Tishama Goron Dutse, Miller road and police headquarters road Bompai in the metropolis.
From DESMOND MGBOH, Kano
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
DAILY SUN, NIGERIA
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2012/jan/24/national-24-01-2012-002.html
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