Scores Dead as Bomb Explodes at a Motor Park in Abuja

Scores of people were killed at the early hours on Monday following bomb explosion affecting two fully loaded luxury busses at Nyanya Park on the outskirts of the capital city, Abuja.

 

Nyanya Motor Park is 33 kilometres from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

 

Two luxury buses, each carrying about 50 passengers on their way to resume to their different offices in Abuja, were affected in the bomb blast.

 No number of causalities has been officially released but almost 70 have been killed according to a reliable source. Some passers-by also sustained different degrees of injuries.

 

Earlier before the bomb blast, the bubbly Nyanya Motor Park was crowded with workers and people waiting to board vehicles to their different places of work and offices in Abuja.

 

Soldiers and bomb disposal experts have cordoned off the area over suspicion of an undetonated bomb while people were warned not to move near the explosion scene.

 

The spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, Manzo Ezekiel, speaking on the bomb blast said: “This morning there was an explosion at the Nyanya Motor Park.

 

“Rescue teams are already on ground. “There were so many people there at that time, so we think there must have been some injuries.” No organisation or body has claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

Meanwhile, President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his planned visit to Ibadan, to visit the explosion scene.

 

President Jonathan had concluded plans to visit Ibadan to felicitate with the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba (Dr) Samuel Odulana who is celebrating his centenary birthday anniversary.