{"id":59154,"date":"2025-01-07T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59154"},"modified":"2025-01-07T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:09:22","slug":"abuja-explosion-bomb-brought-to-school-eyewitness-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/07\/abuja-explosion-bomb-brought-to-school-eyewitness-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Explosion: Student Brought Bomb to School, Eyewitness Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the explosion at Sani Uthman Islamiyya School in Kuchibuyi Village, Bwari Area Council left two dead and two others injured, eyewitnesses have claim a student brought the explosive device to the school.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating it to a peer, the explosive detonated raising serious security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The student holding the device died instantly, while another succumbed to injuries in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Two others\u2014a girl receiving treatment at Kubwa General Hospital and a boy at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital\u2014were also wounded.<\/p>\n<p>However, FCT Police Spokesperson Josephine Adeh provided a different account, stating that three men, not a student, brought the explosive to the school.<\/p>\n<p>She said two of them died while handling an improvised explosive device (IED), on the school\u2019s veranda, while the third man and a female trader sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Bomb Squad confirmed an IED was involved, recovering remnants from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police have taken Mallam Adamu Ashimu, the school owner, into custody for questioning as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Commissioner of Police Olatunji Disu has urged residents to stay vigilant and report suspicious activities to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal As the explosion at Sani Uthman Islamiyya School in Kuchibuyi Village, Bwari Area Council left two dead and two others injured, eyewitnesses have claim a student brought the explosive device to the school. Demonstrating it to a peer, the explosive detonated raising serious security concerns. The student holding the device died instantly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59158,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59154\/revisions\/59158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}