How suicide bomber beat security at UN building

Sun News

28 August 2011

How suicide bomber beat security at UN building

•He came through exit gate – Injured security man

The lone suicide bomber, who blew up parts of the UN House in Abuja on Friday morning, caught the army of security guards on the premises off-guard by taking the exit gate on approaching the building instead of the access gate, a security man who survived the blast told Sunday Sun yesterday.

Mr Douglas Namson, who was still wreathing in pains while he spoke from his hospital bed at the National Hospital, said the bomber would not have been able to execute his lethal assignment if he had taken the access gate because his men would have stopped him.

Namson, who said he watched in bewilderment as the approaching Toyota Camry car crashed the two gates through which people exit the sprawling building before ramming into the reception, explained that he could only shout “what is that, what is that” from where he stood until the ensuing deafening explosion threw him on the ground.