We Saw Death, But God Saved Us – Journalists

Survivors of the Kaduna Bomb explosion have continued to recount their ordeals on how God save their lives from the deadly explosion.

One of the Kaduna reporters of The Sun Newspaper, Abdulgafar Alabelewe who narrowly escaped death in his effort to get first hand information, attributed everything to God.

The Sun reporter who was said to have left the office a few minutes before the explosions rushed back to the scene on hearing the news of bomb scare around his office, only for the bomb to explode in his presence.

Narrating his ordeal to our Correspondent, Alabelewe said, he saw people killed instantly by the explosion while they were beating the suspected bomber.

He said “I really thank God, because I have never experienced such thing like what happened today. I was in the office to read paper like every other day. I read paper and left to repair my car at mechanic village, Oriapata when a colleague called me that, angry youths were beating a suspected bomber in front of my office. I quickly rushed there to see thing for myself, but I could not do what took me there at the end”.

“When I got to the scene, I saw a huge man being beaten by angry youths. While some were beating him, others insisted that the man should go and remove his car, suspected to be loaded with bombs”.

“As the man was moving to where he parked the car, accompanied by the youths, I was moving close to him to take his photograph, then some angry youths began to throw stone at the bomber again. At that point, I had to move back to avoid being hit by the stones, the next thing I had was a very deafening sound of explosion and myself covered by the smoke of the explosion”.

“I became confused that I quickly ran out of the scene with fear that another one might explode again. Even as I talk to you now, my left ear is blocked, while I feel some pain from within my head”.