By DESMOND MGBOH, Kano

Barely four days after insurgents attacked a luxury bus motor park in Kano, kill­ing five people, the city yes­terday came under multiple bomb attacks, which left six people dead, including a sui­cide bomber. Many others were injured, while property worth millions of naira were destroyed.

In one of the terror attacks yesterday, a bomb was thrown into a church premises. In the second attack, a female sui­cide bomber blew up herself to frustrate her arrest.

Five persons have been confirmed dead, while eight others were injured following a bomb explosion that rocked St Charles Catholic Church, along Nomansland, in Sabon Garri area of Kano.

Kano State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Adelenre Shinaba, who confirmed the incident, explained that those that died included a minor, two females and two men, one of whom was a soldier on guard duty at the church.

He said the attack took place at about 2p.m, adding that the police had evacuated the dead to the morgue, while the injured were rushed to hos­pitals for medical attention.

The police chief confirmed that a total of three suspects had been arrested in connec­tion with the explosion at the church, adding that he had since visited the leadership of the affected church to condole with them.

Eyewitnesses told Daily Sun that the insurgents threw an explosive from the window of a nearby primary school, Kwakwashi Primary School, located adjacent to the second gate of Saint Charles Catholic Church, Kano.

At the time of the attack, the church was doing fund­raising preparatory to its an­nual harvest.

Speaking to reporters at the scene of the explosion, the Catholic Bishop of Kano, Bishop John Mamanza, con­demned the attack on his members, saying a total of five people died while 16 others were injured in the attack.

He said he had personally visited 10 of the victims of the explosion at three hospitals in the state. The bishop said he had two accounts of the inci­dent, one being that some per­sons threw explosives at the worshipers, who were at the gate of the church, from the window of a nearby primary school, while another account was that the terror suspect ac­costed a security man and then detonated the device.

The Chairman of the Chris­tian Association of Nigeria, Kano State chapter, Bishop Ransome Bello, while con­demning the attack at Saint Charles Catholic Church, stated that it was an unfortu­nate development which was painful and deeply disturbing.

Bishop Bello, who was at the St Charles Catholic Church for an on-the-spot as­sessment of the tragedy, how­ever, appealed to Christian youths not to take laws into their own hands but to contin­ue to pray to the Lord, saying with prayers, the Lord would end terrorism in the state and in the country.


Source: Sun