{"id":7793,"date":"2011-12-07T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/nigeria-eight-killed-in-explosion-in-northern-country\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T13:59:20","slug":"nigeria-eight-killed-in-explosion-in-northern-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/07\/nigeria-eight-killed-in-explosion-in-northern-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Eight Killed in Explosion in Northern Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>7 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>A powerful blast in northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Wednesday killed at least eight people and injured many others, an emergency official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the dead victims from the Kaduna explosion is a three-year-old child whose parent has taken the body for burial,&#8221; said Yushau Shuaib for the national emergency management agency.<\/p>\n<p>Dossier: Sharia wars &#8211; Boko Haram v the military in northern Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>Another official from the agency specified that a total of eight people had so far been confirmed killed.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Wednesday that the explosion seemed to be accidental, but there was speculation that it was a bomb due to its strength and the fact that it took place in an area mainly populated by Christian Igbos.<\/p>\n<p>There were riots in Kaduna, located in the mainly Muslim north, after April&#8217;s election, which was won by President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s north has also been hit in recent months by scores of bomb blasts and shootings blamed on the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Aminu Lawan had earlier in the day said information indicated that the blast was accidental.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initially, we thought it was a bomb blast but our preliminary assessment has shown that it was an accidental explosion from a repair shop dealing in car batteries and gas cylinders,&#8221; Lawan had said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20111207-eight-killed-explosion-northern-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7 December 2011 A powerful blast in northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Wednesday killed at least eight people and injured many others, an emergency official said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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