As of this morning it is still uncertain how many lives were lost in Nyanya bomb blast but statistics from different media reports go from 9 to 70. According to National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA), 9 people are confirmed dead and 11 seriously injured. The DG of NEMA Abjua, Sanni Sidi said " that the gravity of the blast was not as intensive as the previous one, stressing that yesterday’s blast happened fifty metres away from the last one, but the same Nyanya, outskirts of Abuja".
The Secretary, Health and Human Services, Ademola Onakomaiya who gave the number of injured persons at various hospitals, disclosed that the total number of those who sustained injuries at Asokoro, Maitama General Hospitals and National Hospital were 41 with 30 at Asokoro, 2 in Maitama and 9 at National Hospital, adding that arrangements have been put in place as 20 bed spaces have been created in three hospitals where those at Asokoro would be taken to.
According to him, 8 for Maitama, 8 in Wuse General Hospital and 4 in Gwarimpa Hospital.
More pictures of the blast site this morning, Photos credited to LIB
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