30 dies, 70 injured in triple bomb blasts after Police IG visited Gombe

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Few minutes after the visit of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to Gombe State, triple bomb blasts rocked the state’s capital, killing over 30 people and injuring about 70 persons.
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A Red Cross official in the state, Malam Abubakar Yakubu, confirmed the incident and said the bomb blasts occurred at Dadin/Kowa and Dukku motor parks and that the dead bodies were deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital (FHT) and Specialist Hospital mortuaries, both in Gombe, the state’s capital. He said the injured were currently receiving treatment at the FTH and the Specialist Hospital.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Fwaje Atajiri, said the Dadin/Kowa motor park blasts occurred around 7:50 pm and the area was condoned off, with victims conveyed to hospital, saying casualty figure was not confirmed. A witness said the Dukku motor park blasts occurred one hour after the Dadin/Kowa blast, adding that the Dadin/Kowa bomb exploded in between a mosque and the motor park when people were coming out of the mosque.

Earlier at the event before the blasts, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Arase, had said the Nigeria Police would soon be re-vitalized through overseas training and that the idea had already been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The IGP said the police require more training in order to meet up with modern trends of the profession, stressing that the security challenges being faced in the country are not peculiar to Nigeria alone.

According to him, the police would not fold their arms and allow insurgents to overwhelm the nation. “I have come to encourage my officers and men and to tell them that the internal security challenges we are facing are things that we can handle. We cannot allow hoodlums to overwhelm you and I will always do everything both in terms of welfare and material, to enhance their working environment.”

“We have already given scholarships to the children of the policemen that died at the checkpoint in Yobe State two or three days ago and I have also promoted them posthumously, because if those boys had not stopped that vehicle laden with explosives, only God knows the number of lives of innocent people that would have been lost. They had, indeed, sacrificed so that some Nigerians would be alive,” he said.

Arase said, “Already 36, 000 of them are going to be promoted, I am going to build about 6, 000 new houses for them. My main interest is the welfare of the inspectors and rank and file. I am passionate about them and want to touch their lives.”

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