MAIDUGURI – Death toll in Tuesday’s bomb attack on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, has risen from 30 to 43.
The bomb blast, which left the streets deserted, was greeted by protests by some aggrieved youths who alleged that the latest ordeal was traceable to the immediate past governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, who had stayed away from the state for a long time.
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The youths went about smashing every car on the road with the sticker or poster of the former governor or his alleged anointed political son, Mohammed Imam, who he is believed to be supporting to take over from the incumbent, Alhaji Kashim Shettima in 2015.
Punch reports:
A mortuary attendant at the Borno State Specialists Hospital, Maiduguri where the corpses were deposited, who pleaded anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to the press on the incident, said he counted 43 corpses brought to the hospital’s morgue after the explosion on Tuesday.
The attendant said, “Please, do not mention my name but let me tell you that 43 mangled and burnt corpses were brought in at different times on Tuesday.”
Efforts by journalists to enter the hospital’s mortuary were frustrated by security men and the management of the health institution.
The hospital was heavily guided and visitors and relations of the victims were not given easy access to the mortuary.
