‘What my surviving brother told me on Abuja school explosion’

A brother to one of the survivors of the explosion at the Abuja Modern Almajiris school has narrated how the device was discovered, which led to the killing of two people as well as injuring two others.

The incident that took place at Kuchibuyi community located on the outskirts of Kubwa town penultimate Monday, had led to the closure of the school indefinitely, with its proprietor still in police custody.

Speaking in a phone chat yesterday, a brother to one of the incident survivors, Garba Dungus said his younger brother Abba Saidu who was critically injured and still on admission at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada, had told him how one of the deceased in the incidence Harisu Lawan, has located the device.

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I asked him one-on-one after he started speaking since the incident what he knew about the device. He told me that the device was discovered by the late Harisu Lawan while they were moving in the bush around a rail track near the community. They went to some farms where sweet potatoes were harvested to scavenge from the left of the crop.

In the process, the deceased discovered the device and took it back home, which led to the incident he added. Dungu further explained that the deceased had attempted to sell the device to a girl hawker within the community known as Fauziya Iliyasu, who had also been injured by the explosion, he explained.

Meanwhile, the parents of the two deceased who arrived in the community from Yargoje village in Kankara LGA in Katsina State, following the incident, left back home yesterday, without conducting funerals for their children. Speaking about the development yesterday, one of the residents of the Kuchibuyi Iliya Shuaibu said all efforts to get the police approval for the release of the two corpses for the funeral prayer were not successful.

Father to the late Harisu, Lawan Ahmad, and that of late Najib, Ibrahim Isa, left in the early morning today back to Katsina state, as all efforts to get the release of the two corpses were not successful, he lamented.