According to reports, at least 118 people were killed in the recent Jos explosion that occurred on Tuesday after two bombs ripped through a business setting well-packed with countless commuters and traders.
According to Abdulsalam Mohd, of Nigeria’s national emergency management agency - ambulances and volunteers were ferrying wounded and dead from Terminus, an area home to a teaching hospital, shops, offices and a market. He said the death toll was likely to climb as victims were still being pulled from smoldering rubble at the scene.
“It happened very close to the market so most of the victims were people plying their trade. Some had children with them,” he said by phone from the scene, above the wail of sirens.
“The casualty figure is likely to rise because the fire service wasn’t able to clear all the rubble today. They will continue to remove the debris tomorrow and we are expecting to recover more bodies then,” he added.
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