Exactly a week after multiple explosions rocked the military formations in Kaduna, another round of multiple bombs exploded yesterday in Kaduna metropolis. The explosions occured barely 24 hours after a bomb scare at the Government House, Kaduna where a director in Governor Yakowa’s government was shot by security operatives on the suspicion that he was a suicide bomber.

Yesterday’s explosions killed a mobile policeman, who was trying to use a bomb detector to scan an object dumped by the roadside allegedly by the Boko Haram sect at Ungwan Sarki area, near the Sultan Bello Mosque. Two others were also injured.

According to the state Commissioner of Police, Ballah Magaji Nassarawa, “there were two explosions at Ungwan Sarki Bus Stop, Kaduna. The first improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in a gutter near a parked 15-seater Ford bus. No one was affected until the second explosion occurred when a police anti-bomb officer, one Sergeant Sunday Badang was about to detonate it. The IED exploded and he was killed instantly.

“The fragments hit two other persons near the scene. They were rushed to 44 Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna for treatment and the victims are in a stable condition.
“The area was combed by the police anti-bomb squad and no other explosive device was detected. Also no arrest has been made yet.”
The multiple explosions, eyewitness said, occurred at about 11 .33am while the one that killed the policeman went off about 12.15 pm.
The two bomb explosions, according to an eyewitness, left several people injured, just as businesses in the area paralyzed, while some banks in the city closed immediately.

An eyewitness who spoke with Daily Sun at the scene said, shortly after the first bomb exploded, another polythene bag containing shaking objects was discovered at another location, few metres away.
According to the eyewitness, who identified himself as Mohammed Bello, “after the first explosion, a mobile policeman showed brevery trying to detonate the content of the polythene bag when it exploded shattering the policeman into pieces.”
When Daily Sun visited the scene of the blasts, the body of the policeman was seen lying on the main road.
As at the time of f