Barely seven months after the suicide bomb blast that hit St Andrew’s Protestant Catholic Church in Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna, another revelation has been made that the bomb was a special device, blended with deadly chemical and pellet.
The church, which was in the residential quarters of the cantonment was attacked by a suicide bomber on November 25, last year, killing scores and injuring several others.
The Commandant, Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Air Vice Marshal Effiong E. Osim, made the revelation when members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution on security challenges in the North visited him at the weekend on a factfinding mission.
Air Vice Marshal Osim, who took the Chairman of the committee, Tanimu Turaki and other members to the premises of the church, explained that the bomb was not designed to pull down the church, but it contained sharp pellet blended with chemical.
He said once the pellet comes into contact with a person; it would just peel his or her skin of the victim to a high degree of burns, adding that it was such contact that killed one of the officers in the cantonment.
According to him: “The bomb that hit this church was a special bomb, it was not designed to pull down the structure of the church, it is a kind of bomb that contained dangerous chemical and pellet that could fly long distance once it is detonated.
“And once the pellet touches the victim, it is instant death or the skin would begin to peel to a high level degree of injuries. This is what killed one of our officers because he was standing some few distances from the scene of the incident. Well, we have started rebuilding the church because the roof, as you can see was badly damaged and the Ministry of Defence has promised to assist us with some amount of money,” Osim said.
SUN
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