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y SaharaReporters, New York
The Nigerian Red Cross is backing eyewitness accounts that yesterday’s blast in Kaduna, in which several people were killed, was a bomb blast, not a gas explosion, the Associated Press (AP) has said, based on an internal Red Cross report on the incident a reporter saw today.

Yesterday, the Nigeria Police in Kaduna claimed that the explosion had resulted from a gas cylinder, dismissing eyewitness accounts which said two men riding a motorbike tossed a bomb into the area.

The Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ballah Magaji Nasarawa, roundly dismissed reports of the two motorbike riders. “That is not true,” he said.




On his part, Assistant Superintendent Patrick David, the commander of the anti-bomb unit, told Saharareporters on the scene that the blast was a “mechanical explosion” from reactive available at battery sellers in the market.

Today, Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawan told AP he was not aware of the Red Cross report, but maintained that the police's anti-bomb squad had concluded that the blast was accidental.

He said the squad found acid batteries, a gas cylinder and other "active" materials stored in the small shop where the fire started.


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