Boko Haram: Bomb threat causes panic in Katsina

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Katsina, State News Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

A suspected bomb believed to have been planted at the divisional police headquarters in Dutsinma, home town of Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema, by Islamic millitants Boko Haram, has caused severe panic in the town the entire state.

The said attempt to blow up the police station came in the wake of penultimate Monday’s explosion and armed robbery at a nearby Kankara divisional police headquarters and a commercial bank in which five policemen and two civilians were killed.
Although Katsina is about 1,500 kilometres from Maiduguri, the base of Boko Haram, night life in Katsina has nosedived as security had been beefed up to ensure safety of lives and property in the wake of re-occurring bomb blasts in some parts of the North and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Spokesman of the state police command, Ibrahim Abubakar, an Assistant Superintendent, who denied that Katsina police had evacuated the suspected bomb in Dutsinma, however, said that several top operatives of the command and bomb experts rushed to Dutsinma on Tuesday following fresh fears of attack.

Abubakar said they did not find any bomb in Dutsinma but the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in the area was directed by the team to liaise with the stakeholders to check the rising tension in the area. “If some people see a black polythene bag in the area, chances are that they will conclude that it contains a bomb; that is the situation now,” he lamented.

But a source close to the police command however, insisted at Press time that the police actually found an unexploded bomb and it was removed for investigation.

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