The bombings, the latest in a series of attacks, spread alarm across the country and raised new concerns about tensions between Christians and Muslims in this nation of 175 million.
According to a report by AFP, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA told them that 118 people have been confirmed dead from
today's bomb blast in Jos, with several others still under the debris
Witnesses described seeing bodies torn apart and consumed by flames in the double blast at a busy bus station in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, a central region that splits Nigeria's mostly Christian and more fertile south from the mostly Muslim and more arid north, where Boko Haram militants have spread terror for five years.
While world attention remains riveted on the drama of 276 missing schoolgirls abducted in mid-April, twin car blasts on Tuesday killed at least 118 people in the Nigerian city of Jos
"The exact figure of the dead bodies recovered as of now is 118 and more bodies may be in the debris of buildings which collapsed due to the intensity of the blasts.” Mohammed Abdulsalam told AFP. He also revealed that 56 people were injured in the twin blasts.
Plateau state Police commissioner Chris Olakpe had earlier told reporters that only 46 people were killed and 45 others were injured. He later said "We are saying 46. That’s the number we have in the morgues. But we are not ruling out more bodies.”
Well, eye-witnesses insists there are way more bodies. At least 200. Many have not been recovered.
Source :.Photo: AP
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