Due to the twin explosion
less than fifty people were confirmed dead after the twin explosions rocked
Jos, the Plateau state capital on Sunday, July 5 2015.
The first explosion
occurred at Bauchi road, just before the University of Jos main campus, while
the second explosion occurred around Yantaya, Nasarawa Gwon area, both in Jos
North local government area of the state.
The Nation reports that the
explosions occurred in a mosque and a restaurant.
Tafsir, an Islamic sermon
session, was being conducted in the mosque at the time of the second explosion,
NAN reports.
Meanwhile, the director in
charge of the North-Central zone of the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), Mohammed Abdulsalam, said the number of casualties was 44.
He told journalists via
telephone on Monday, July 7, that 48 other people were badly injured, and are
currently hospitalized in various hospitals in Jos.
But the Plateau state
government insisted that only 18 people died in the incidents, with 18 others
injured.
The twin explosions
occurred just hours after a suicide bomber killed himself and 6 people at a
local branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Potiskum, Yobe
state.
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