Seven Buildings Destroyed as Another Explosion Rocks Kaduna

Vanguard

20 December 2011

Seven Buildings Destroyed as Another Explosion Rocks Kaduna

Kaduna — A week after an explosion killed seven people leaving six injured in Kaduna, the city witnessed another bomb explosion yesterday triggering a pandemonium that sent hundreds of residents scampering to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Barracks about two kilometres away.

The explosion which occurred around 1:30pm on

Ibrahim Rintiyi street

, Unguwan Magaji, Kawo, Kaduna, demolished about seven buildings around the house where it exploded.

Though no death was recorded, three persons believed to be the occupants of the House, ran out of the building covered in blood, but were chased and apprehended by locals who promptly handed them over to the Police.

When Vanguard visited the site, around 3pm yesterday the place was smelling of gunpowder, with smoke still bellowing from house A R 33 where the explosion took place.

A crowd of soldiers, Police anti-bomb squad, Civil Defence Corps and plainclothesmen combed the ruins of the house where they discovered that it may have been an illegal armoury of sort, as three military rifles partly charred were recovered.