After the evacuation of victims of the bomb blasts in the Abuja satellite towns of Kuje and Nyanya to various hospitals, the Abuja Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ishayah Chonoko has confirmed that 59 people were affected.
Chonoko said 18 persons lost their lives and 41 injured.
Three dead and 21 injured victims were recorded from the Nyanya incident, while 15 persons lost their lives in Kuje, with 20 persons being treated for injury.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mohammed Sani-Sidi, who led some of the evacuations and visited victims in the hospitals, has propmised that the government would foot the medical bill of the victims.
Sani-Sidi also reiterated the need for security consciousness among the citizens by reporting suspicious objects and strange movement in their localities to security agencies.
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