60 People Dead So Far: CAN Cries Out Over Mass Killings in Kano

Monday was yet another bloody day in Nigeria as over 60 passengers, drivers and residents lost their lives to explosions at an inter-state luxury bus park in the city of Kano. Some witnesses have attributed it to improvised explosive devices planted in a luxury bus in the ever-busy park, others said it was carried out by three suicide bombers.
The explosions left many injured and some buses destroyed in the park located in the Sabon-Gari, an area mostly inhabited by non-indigenes on Kano.

Chairman of the Kano chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Tobias Idika, said records available to him showed that more than 60 persons died and five luxury buses burnt.

“This is the worst experience of the Igbo in Kano; we have lost over 60 souls, while five buses were burnt to ashes . These show that we have always been the target of the attacks. IEDs were kept inside a luxurious bus which was about to leave Kano for Lagos.

“People were flying like chickens here and you know there were so many people in the bus when the IEDs exploded,” he said.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, said the latest killings have exposed the hypocrisy in the call for Amnesty by Muslim leaders for Boko Haram.

As usual, President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the killing of over 60 Nigerians. He described the act as barbaric and commensurate with the victims and their families.