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Jos Blast Survivors Recounts Their Ordeal by Swagavillage(m): 11:07am On Jul 07, 2015
A widowed woman who was among one of the Jos blast survivors simply identified as mama Peter,described how her two children were blown up by the blast which left over 46 dead and many injured,Mama Peter who was a popular food vendor at Bauchi road, narrated in tears,how the ugly even occoured,she said "my two children were in the shop,helping me serve food to customers when the explosion occoured</i>
Another lucky survivor of the incident who gave his name as Mallam Adamu narrated in Hausa language saying <i> "muna chikin adua'a a masalachi sai kawai muka fara jin bindiga daga waje,sai munji wata kara" translated as "We were inside the mosque listening to a sermon when we suddenly started hearing gun shots which was accompanied by a loud blast,he added that the electricity was seized immediately after the blast which made people run helter skelter in all directions, there was no time to help the seriously injured victims as they cried for help because it was too dark to see."
.Mallam Adamu said he is a textile dealer.

At the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, our
correspondent observed that corpses littered the
ground as relatives of victims tried to identify them
either by the shirts or shoes they wore, as many of
them were mutilated beyond recognition.
A medical worker who spoke to our reporter on
condition of anonymity said some of the corpses
were yet to be claimed because they were burned
and mutilated.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the twin bomb
blasts that rocked a Mosque at Dilimi Yantaya and
a restaurant at Bauchi road motor park in Jos
North local government area of Plateau State on
Sunday night has risen to 44.
LEADERSHIP reported that some of the dead had been
buried, but the injured are receiving treatment at
various hospitals, namely, the Plateau State
Specialist Hospital, Our Lady of Apostle hospital,
Bingham University Teaching Hospital (Jankwano)
and Sunnah Hospital, Angwan Rimi, all in Jos, the
Plateau State capital.
Among the dead the husband of former Plateau
State commissioner of tourism during Chief Joshua
Dariye’s tenure, Hajiya Fati Kyari. Mr. Kyari’s body
was pierced with bullets.
The coordinator, North Central, National Emergency
Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Mohammed
Abdulsalam said 44 people lost their lives while 47
others were critically injured in the twin blasts.
Abdulsalam told journalists at the premises of the
Plateau State Hospital, Jos, that a majority of the
wounded were admitted at the intensive care unit
(ICU) of the Plateau Specialist Hospital.
“This was the first hospital we brought them to but
because of the casualty figure, the hospital facility
was overstretched so we took some of them to
Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Jankwano
and Our Lady of Apostle Hospital,” he said, adding
that the agency had made provisions for some
consumables to be used in treating the patients.
In reaction to blast at Yantaya Mosque in Jos,
youths in the area allegedly set ablaze the
Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Dilimi.
The church had suffered a series of destruction in
past riots but has remained the only one still
standing in this area.
Meanwhile, the Plateau State governor, Simon
Lalong, has described the attacks on his state as
unfortunate and highly condemnable, even as he
called on residents of Jos North and the entire
citizens of the state to remain calm and to “stand
in solidarity with one another in the face of the
onslaught by agents of death on our collective
resolve to remain as one united people in spite of
ethnic and religious differences.”
According to a statement issue and signed by the
director, Press and Public Affairs, to the governor,
Samuel Emmanuel Nanle, it is regrettable that at a
time when Muslim faithful are settled to the
fulfilment of a religious obligation, agents of death,
chaos and anarchy have chosen to disrupt the
peace of the state by orchestrating a spade of
sporadic bomb blasts to portray a state of
dissatisfaction that pitches otherwise peaceful co-
inhabitants against themselves.
Governor Lalong also urged president Mohammadu
Buhari to return military checkpoints in order check
future recurrence.
The governor further directed all medical
institutions in the state to respond to medical
situations at government expense with respect to
the emergency situation at hand.
Also, a member representing Barkin Ladi/Riyom
federal constituency at the House of
Representatives, Hon. Istifanus Gyang, yesterday
strongly condemned the twin bomb attacks at Jos
metropolis on Sunday night.
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Re: Jos Blast Survivors Recounts Their Ordeal by Nobody: 11:07am On Jul 07, 2015
sad
Re: Jos Blast Survivors Recounts Their Ordeal by twoMcfemad: 11:20am On Jul 07, 2015
This is seriously serious

May God deliver this nation,soon.

President Buhari should act fast and deliver his campaign promises to day defeat BH.

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