Over 100 members of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria were killed in Easter Sunday’s explosion in Kaduna, the association has claimed.
The Secretary General, Nasir Mamman, and the Chairman of the Kaduna State branch of the association, Danjuma Issa, said this on Monday.
Mamman said: “Yesterday was a very dark day.
“This is because we lost our members and other innocent Nigerians.
“On the average, over 100 of our members lost their lives.”
Mamman said the association was in the process of compiling a list of those who died.
Issa said most of those who died were dismembered beyond recognition, adding: “It was an unfortunate incident, more so that it mostly affected our members.
“You can see that we are few here today.
“We are still mourning and searching for most of our members whom, we believe, were killed in the blast.
“Families of some of our members have been trooping to various hospitals in the state to search for their loved ones.
“You cannot even identify some of the dead because they were burnt beyond recognition.”