April 22, (THEWILL) – A bomb explosion has rocked a drinking joint at Nukia Village in Jalingo, the Taraba state capital on Friday night, causing minor injuries to a few persons.
The latest incident came barely three days after an explosion killed more than six persons at a local joint in Iware, a suburb of Jalingo
Eyewitnesses said a man riding on a bike dropped the device near a drinking joint under a tree and drove off shortly before it went off.
Though, there was no casualty or serious injuries as the explosive device was dropped a bit far from the elevation where the people were seated, but a neighboring house was partly shattered by the impact, while the tree was shredded of it’s lush greenery.
Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Professor Joseph Albasu Kunini, who confirmed the incident, called on the people to be more vigilant in the midst of the new security challenge in the state.
Kunini noted that with the Nukai explosion coming barely a few days after the Iware explosion, it is clear that the terrorists are bent on doing mayhem in the state and the people must be vigilant to notice and report any suspicious movement to the appropriate authorities.
He called on security agencies to step up their surveillance and be more proactive to stop the terrorists in the bid to turn the state into another theatre of bloodbath and carnage.
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