Yestarday Blast: 21 Persons Killed In Abuja Mall Bomb Blast

On yestarday explosion, Suspected members of the Islamist Militant Sect, Boko Haram, detonated the bomb at the Emab Plaza, one of the busiest shopping complexes, in Abuja.
The explosion is the third in the Federal Capital Territory in the last two months. On April 14, 2014, a bomb blast at Nyanya, Abuja, killed 71 people and injured 124. Another Blast in Nyanya, a satellite settlement near Abuja, on May 1, 2014, killed 19 people and injured 60. The Wednesday bomb went off around 4.10pm in front of the mall adjacent to a very busy mosque where many Muslims had gone to observe the Asri (4pm prayer).
Although eyewitnesses put the casualty figure at 30, The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mbah, told Journalists at the scene that 21 people died and 17 were injured.
Mba’s figures were however contradicted by the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Bala Mohammed, who said that 12 people were killed while 35 were injured.

Mba had also said that the explosion destroyed 17 vehicles outside and within the complex.
The Managing Editor, Northern Operations of the New Telegraph, Suleiman Bisalla, is one of the dead victims.
Eight others believed to be drivers were burnt in their vehicles.