by Akan Ido
The death toll of the bomb blast at the Terminus Market in Jos, Plateau state earlier today has hit 118 according to reports from the Agence France-Presse.
Plateau state police commissioner Chris Olakpe had earlier told reporters that 46 people died while 45 others were injured in the twin blasts.
According to the military, two bombs were concealed inside a truck and a minibus.
“The first IED (improvised explosive device) was in a truck. The second was in a minibus,” according to Kingsley Egbo of the military State Task Force (STF) in Plateau.
“The market was really crowded,” he added. “We are having a problem of crowd control… The emergency services have evacuated the casualties,” he told the AFP news agency immediately after the second blast occurred.
See photos from the tragedy below:
– [Photo credit: H/T SaharaReporters, AFP]
nigerian government need to do sometin to protect people lives,
why can't our Nigerian govrnment fund a proper solution or how to stop the problem in Our contury ?
God help us.
it terrible