News Analysis: Police save Kano from multiple bombing plots

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Kano State Commissioner of Police in the State, Adenrele Shinaba showing a white Peugeot laden with explosives

But for the vigilance of Nigerian policemen, many people would have died today if terrorists had succeeded in their plans to bomb the northern Nigerian city of Kano, on several fronts.

Though the bombing of the Catholic Church in Sabon Gari succeeded, claiming five lives, the attack would have been a child’s play if a massive bomb planted at Isyiaku Rabiu mosque where hundreds of worshippers were billed to observe the Eid-el-Fitri prayers had not been discovered.

But the police in Kano found this out.

Kano State Commissioner of Police in the State, Adenrele Shinaba showing a white Peugeot laden with explosives
Kano State Commissioner of Police in the State, Adenrele Shinaba showing a white Peugeot laden with explosives

What Security sources said was a high calibre improvised explosive device was primed in a tinted vehicle and strategically parked within the premises of the mosque that also served as an Eid praying ground.

ASP Magaji Musa Majia said the police commissioner, Adelenre Shinaba would address the press on the incident.

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Outside, the Bayero University in Kano, five policemen became heroes as they frustrated a female suicide bomber on her way to the school.

The woman blew herself up outside after they prevented her from carrying out an attack, injuring five officers, police said.

“A female suicide bomber was isolated as she was walking towards the gate of the university,” said police spokesman Frank Mba, adding that she had hidden the bomb under her “long black hijab”.

“Police on duty isolated her” because she was behaving strangely, Mba said.

They were about to ask a woman colleague to frisk the woman when she detonated the bomb, killing herself and injuring the five police officers, he said.

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