By Bashir Mohammed
Kano
Despite the casualty figures, earlier projected by media establishments in the wake up of the multiple explosions that rocked Kano Central Mosque, last Friday, more casualties are still missing.
Blueprint learnt on good authority that, some relatives of the victims of the blasts could not be able to claim the corpses of their beloved ones, given the mature and circumstances that led to their death in the blasts, whose death toll was unprecedented.
Sources close to the hospitals told our correspondent that many of those who died in the blasts could not be easily identified as their bodies were disfigured beyond recognition.
A relative of one of the victims, Malam Shehu Garba Mandawari, told our correspondent that the whereabouts of his brother could not be ascertained since last Friday, adding that, he was informed by the missing brother that he was going to observe his Juma’at prayer at the central mosque.
He also informed our correspondent that he heard many people recounting similar experience, saying he was not surprised by the way and manner the suicide bombers decided to carry out their dastardly mission.
He apportioned the blame of the inability to address the issue of security in the country on the federal government, having failed to match its words with action in nipping the present insurgency in the bud.
He said: “If the government is really serious, adequate security measures should have been put in place to face any eventuality. But the laxity on the part of the government is sadly appalling. It is high time the government do something to address the issue of insecurity squarely.”
Meanwhile, cemeteries situated in the metropolitan area of Kano where almost filled with corpses, given the large number of the dead, and that the situation was proven difficult for the grave professional diggers to handle the task.
At the Dan Dolo Cemetery, where most victims of the blasts were buried, people who stood on guard to witness the burial, have not been able to count the number of corpses brought to the cemetery.
As at the time of filing in this report, people were still trooping to various hospitals in Kano where the victims of the blasts were hospitalised.
