Four more wounded parishioners died of their injuries incurred Sunday
at the suicide bombing of St. Andrew Military Protestant Church
situated at Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, in Kaduna
State.
The deaths today of the four bring to 15 the total number of reported
fatalities since Sunday’s devastating detonation suspected to be the
work of Boko Haram. However unconfirmed sources told the press that the
death toll could be twice that number. On Monday, an official at the
base's medical center told reporters on condition of anonymity that at
least 30 died from the blasts and another 45 others had been wounded in
the attack. The military hospital ordinarily bars its staff from
speaking to journalists.
Nigeria's military has been unable to stop the attacks and has
alienated locals with heavy-handed tactics and retaliatory attacks that
have seen dozens of civilians killed at a time. Meanwhile, soldiers and
security forces routinely have been killed in guerrilla attacks by Boko
Haram.
The Commandant of the college, Air Vice Marshall Abdullahi Kure said
today he received some senior military officers from Defence
Headquarters, Abuja, who gave first hand assessment to the college. A
military source who heard the Commandant told SaharaReporters that the
corpses of those who died in the church premises are still at a Nigerian
military hospital in Kaduna, and Ahmadu Bello University Teaching
Hospital in Zaria.
Source: SaharaReporters
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