The FCT Minister,
Bala Mohammed, on Tuesday said there would be no mass burial for victims of
Monday’s explosion in Nyanya, Abuja. Mr. Mohammed said that the corpses of
the victims would be released to their families. He made this known while
speaking to journalists shortly after visiting some victims of the blast at
Asokoro District Hospital in Abuja. He said the corpses would be released
to their owners without any delay after proper identification.
“We will give them
befitting burial they deserved. There will be no mass burial but we will do
everything possible so that they will be identified by their relations”, he
said.
Mr. Mohammed added
that the six-month-old baby, who survived the blast, and receiving treatment at
the Asokoro hospital, would be re-united with her mother, who is also receiving
treatment at Wuse District Hospital. He said the Abuja administration
would foot the medical bills of all those injured in the explosion and directed
the FCT Secretary of Health, Ademola Onakomaiya, to refer serious cases to
specialist hospitals.
He condemned the
attack and described it as wicked and heartless. The police confirmed the
death of 71 people and 124 injured in the blast. Mr. Onakomaiya, however,
told the minister that one victim died on Tuesday morning at the Wuse District
Hospital, bringing the number of the dead to 72.
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