What really happened at Aba Road in Sabon Gari area of Kano State on Tuesday? We ask this question in view of the conflicting reports emanating from an explosion that occurred there. While some account said it was due to gas explosion, another said it was a bomb blast. The explosion occurred around 9.30am on the road near a school, Winners Kids Academy, destroyed a residential building and shattered part of the school. At least nine persons died as a result of the explosion, with several others injured.

The account, which attributed the incident to gas explosion has it that it occurred at a welding workshop owned by a 25-year-old man, probably because a welding cylinder, carbide and other welding items were recovered from the scene.

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Ahmed, confirmed that nine bodies were recovered from the rubble of a storey building that collapsed after the explosion. He said NEMA had mobilised excavators to facilitate rescue operations at the site adding that the agency would work with other agencies to see to the complete removal of the rubbles to be able to retrieve all the persons trapped there

“Nine dead bodies have been recovered so far from the rubble of a collapsed building, beside a primary school following the explosions from a gas cylinder at Aba Road in Sabon Gari area of Kano’’, he said.