Police Deactivate bomb in kaduna

Kaduna – The Police in Kaduna
on Tuesday said they had
successfully defused an explosive
suspected to be bomb in Kaduna.

The Police Public Relation Officer
in the command, Aminu Lawan,
who announced this to
newsmen in Kaduna, said that
the Improvised Explosive Device
(IED) was defused at about 10,30
a.m.

Lawan said that the command
was alerted t about 10 am that a
young motorcyclists dropped a
polythene bag containing IED at
Kashim Ibrahim Road, along
Sultan Road, Ungwan Sarki,
Kaduna North Local Government
Area.

He said that the command's anti-
bomb squad acted swiftly and
was able to defused the
explosive safely "without causing
any harm or injury to any
person".
"When we were alerted, we
swiftly moved to the scene and
condoned off the area. We called
our anti bomb disposal experts
and they responded promptly
and discovered that what was
contained in the polythene bag is
an IED.

" They were able to demobilised
the IED safely without anybody
being affected."
Lawan said that calm had
returned to the metropolis after
the scare, adding that normal
activities had resumed in the
area.

He said that the assessment of
anti-bomb experts of the IED was
that it was of "high calibre".
He advised people in the state to
remain calm and assured that the
command had intensified patrol
in all parts of the city to ensure
that the suspects were tracked
down. (NAN)

Reference: Vanguard