{"id":3367,"date":"2014-12-01T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2014-12-01T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:07:02","slug":"75-year-old-survivor-narrates-his-horrible-experience-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"75-Year-Old Survivor Narrates His Horrible Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 75-year-old sur\u00advivor of the No\u00advember 28 mul\u00adtiple bomb explosions in Kano, Alhaji Mo\u00adhammed Isa Tiga, yes\u00adterday gave a blood\u00adchilling account of the attack that rocked the city\u2019s Central Mosque, saying he survived by Allah\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sunday Sun at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Abdullahi Wase Specialist (Nassarawa) Hospital, the frail-looking man recount\u00aded that those responsible for the blasts came in a Toyota Sienna space wag\u00adon just as the Jumat prayers were about to start.<\/p>\n

He recalled seeing three of them, adding that while two sat at the back of the vehicle, only one was seat\u00aded at the front.<\/p>\n

According to him, as soon as they arrived, they stepped out of the car like normal worshippers and looked every bit like wor\u00adshippers until they began to op\u00aderate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was close by. I saw the three of them alight from the car. A few min\u00adutes after they walked away from the vehicle, the bombs ex\u00adploded,\u201d <\/b><\/i>he said.<\/p>\n

He recalled that confusion ensued. \u201cAs peo\u00adple tried to run away, the young men pulled out their guns and were shooting at those struggling to escape from the blast.\u201d Isa Tiga suf\u00adfered injuries in the confu\u00adsion, stressing that his sur\u00advival was a miracle.<\/p>\n

He could not say what eventually happened to the three men.<\/p>\n

The son of the victim, Alhaji Ali Mohammed Gwagwaso, who resides inside Municipal Area and other family members were at the entrance of the hospital ward, playing host to sympathizers. They ex\u00adpressed gratitude to Allah for the life of their father.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has commis\u00aderated with relatives of the bomb blasts victims, while praying for the repose of the dead victims\u2019 souls.<\/p>\n

Kwankwaso spoke after he paid a sympathy visit to the victims at the Murtala Mohammed Specialists Hospital, Kano.<\/p>\n

He also visited the Kano Central Mosque, inside the old city, where the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

The governor, who re\u00adturned yesterday from a political trip to Nasarawa State confirmed that a total of 100 worshipers died in the bomb explosions, add\u00ading that from the report he received, 135 persons were injured.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s figure contradicted that of the Po\u00adlice, which put the figure of those killed at 35.<\/p>\n

Kwankwaso implored the Federal Government to make peace with all Ni\u00adgerians as a means of ad\u00addressing the bloodletting, while appealing to strik\u00ading members of the Joint Health Workers Union to return to work in view of the magnitude of the medi\u00adcal challenge thrown up by the bomb blast.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Joint Health Sector has suspend\u00aded its industrial action in Kano State because of the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Secretary of the Joint Health Workers\u2019 Union in the state, Kabiru Ado Mini\u00adjibir told Sunday Sun that the state executive of the union held an emergency meeting last Friday, where the decision to suspend the action was reached. They had since communicated the decision to the national body, which gave its con\u00adsent to the suspension of the industrial action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 75-year-old sur\u00advivor of the No\u00advember 28 mul\u00adtiple bomb explosions in Kano, Alhaji Mo\u00adhammed Isa Tiga, yes\u00adterday gave a blood\u00adchilling account of the attack that rocked the city\u2019s Central Mosque, saying he survived by Allah\u2019s grace. Speaking to Sunday Sun at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Abdullahi Wase Specialist (Nassarawa) Hospital, the frail-looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Kano-blast-oldman-702x336.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Sj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}