Following the bomb blast which claimed over thirty lives in Yola, the Adamawa state capital on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, family members of the victims have stormed the hospital to identify the remains of their loved ones, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The victims’ relatives were said to have landed the Specialists Hospital, Yola, to claim the remains of their loved ones and in separate chats with NAN, explained that they thronged the mortuary after visiting the hospital emergency wards and could not locate their relatives.
One of them, identified as Adamu, lamented: “since I did not see my brother who was selling sugar cane at the scene of the incident, I have no option but to come to the mortuary.”
Also, another relation of the victim, Habila Ibrahim, disclosed that he checked the wards in the specialists’ hospital and the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, before checking the morgue to see if his brother was among the dead.
According to Dr Bala Sa’id the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, the hospital had received 29 dead bodies from the scene of the incident.
He said: “As at Tuesday night we had 29 corpses in the mortuary.
“We also have 30 people on admission with various degrees of injury; I believe by now some of those injured are stable. We are now about to take our rounds and make some discharges.”
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Military have announced the destruction of more Boko Haram camps, especially the discovery of a rocket-making factory in Borno state,northern Nigeria.
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