The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has also declared that the casualty rate after the twin bomb blasts could be best described as catastrophic.
“I can’t tell you the figure of those killed by the blasts now, because we are still evacuating bodies from the scene.
“The only thing I can say is that the casualty figure is very massive. It is a catastrophe,” Alhaji Abdulsalam Abubakar, the NEMA Coordinator (North-Central), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos.
Abubakar said both explosives were loaded in parked cars. “The bombers parked the cars and left the explosives to detonate. It was in the market and at a peak period. So, you can only imagine what could have happened,” he said.
“There are also a massive number of people injured. We have conveyed some to various hospitals. We will have to first finish the operation and then visit the various hospitals. For now, we are only picking dead bodies all over the place,” Abubakar said.
horror-stricken persons ran in all directions.
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