34 killed 42 wounded in another blast in Maiduguri

 

                    While the residents of Maiduguri metropolis were trying to overcome the shock of the last weekend multiple explosion, the town was again was thrown into another pandemonium Tuesday when another heavy bomb blast hit the famous Monday Market Maiduguri killing at least 34 people with 42 others injured.
                   Hamisu who identified himself as a commercial driver who dropped passengers just before the El-Kanami round about near the market some few meters from the spot of the blast told our correspondent that “ I  was in my  car (Volkswagen Golf) dropping passengers that I picked from Gomari straight to Kasuwa through the Post Office peacefully and smoothly. When the last passenger was alighting from the car and I was giving change to the other passengers, then I heard heavy strange sound that shook everywhere and anything that was around the place, Hamisu Said.

He narrated further: “Immediately we saw heavy black smoke opposite us at the small entrance of the Monday Market near the El Kanemi roundabout by the Mai Nono (fresh cow milk).
“I was terribly scared and could not even move an inch from my car shivering for some minutes before I was able to gather some momentum to even start my car and drove away. Even the soldiers and civilian JTF could reach the scene.
“When I took the other way out of the scene I saw soldiers and civilian JTF rushing to the scene while people were running up and down confused and terrified. The whole market was thrown into another bad moment,” Hamisu narrated.

Mustapha Idi, a civilian JTF who managed to provide information amidst rescue operation described that attack as “deadly and terrible”.

“We have so far been  able to carry about 30 corpses to the hospital and over 30 seriously injured people apart from those that ran away from the scene wounded and those that  went to hospital on their own not by the security agents vehicles.
On the identity of the suicide bomber, Mustapha said; “We are yet to ascertain whether it is a female or male suicide bomber as everybody is now busy,” he said
A hospital source who could muster any information on the casualty figure only said, at the moment we have 34 deaths and 42 wounded people.