UPDATE:
18 Dead and 41 Injured in Nyanya and Kuje Bomb Blast
...Govt Foots Medical Bill
After the
evacuation of victims of bomb blast in Satellite towns of Kuje and Nyanya to
various hospital in Abuja city, the Abuja Zonal Cordinator of the National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ishayah Chonoko has confirmed that 59
people were affected.
He said that
eighteen (18) persons lost their lives and forty one (41) injured.
Three dead
and 21 injured victims were recorded from Nyanya incident, while fifteen persons
lost their lives in Kuje with 20 persons being treated for injury.
Meanwhile
the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA),
Mohammed Sani-Sidi, who led some of the evacuations and visited victims in the
hospitals, has assured that the government would foot the medical bill of the
victims. He also reiterated the need for security consciousness among the
citizens by reporting any suspicious objects and strange movement in their
localities to security agencies.
PRNigeria
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