The Islamic extremist movement, Boko Haram, may have made good its earlier threat to send its bombers to Kaduna as a bomb exploded from a refuse dump in Obalaende area of Kaduna on Sunday night. The site is said to be close to a popular drinking joint in the area.
There were no casualties but scores of persons were said to have sustained various degrees of injuries when the bomb went off at about 20.30 pm that even Sunday night.
One of the victims who identified himself as, Mohammed Aminu said: "The bomb exploded at about 10.30pm and the sound was heavy and deafening as the bomb blasted. I was terrified and fell down and when I stood up; I started to run, and I discovered that there was blood on my body.
Reports said the bomb exploded from a big drum used as a refuse dump along Forcados street, close to Ebeano Hotel, at Obalende, a popular hang out in the Kaduna metropolis, notorious for its large population of commercial sex workers.
Another eyewitness who gave her name as Chika said: "The bomb exploded some few minutes past 10 pm and I was standing with my friend in front of their house."
The Hotel manager, Steve Adeyemi, said: "When the bomb exploded I was not around. I left the hotel at about 9.30 pm to my house but on reaching home, one of my boys called and said that there was a problem, that he heard a bomb blast, and that he did not know where the bomb blast happened. He later called me that it was outside the hotel.
"I started making calls, asking people, and people also started calling me that some people who were standing outside were injured but I did not know they were outside, so I had to drive there and I discovered that it was opposite one Alhaji's house.
"The bomb was dropped in a drum, a dustbin and it scattered many things and many people injured.
"It is only one girl in my hotel that sustained injury on her way to go and see somebody outside.
"We have security police who is taking care of this house, his name is Tukur from Magaji Garin police station.
"The police were here that night, they parked their patrol vehicle here, and it is like the thing happen in their presence, but I left them there, and told them that I was going home."
District Head of the area, Alhaji Bala Tijani, who visited the scene in the morning yesterday said that, "we pray that it does not happen again.
"It is rather unfortunate; we pray that those who were injured recover very fast. We will continue to appeal to the police to be on top of the security, we will also continue to do our best and that is all I can say."
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