New reports coming in from emergency and health officials in jos reveals that the number of casualties from yesterdays bomb blast has sadly increased to 200.
A report by the National Emergency Management Agency North Central Coordinator, Abdusalam Abubakar had yesterday said that the number of casualties was 118.
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Times however paid a visit to the Plateau Specialist Hospital this
morning and an official from the hospital confirmed that 15 patients who
were in critical state passed away just before midnight last night.
Plateau
Specialist Hospital, laboratory manager at the National Blood
Transfusion unit Demne Kut confirmed the report saying that they died due to lack of blood in hospital as few donors had turned up to give blood.
He
said: “Yesterday (Tuesday), we had 15 persons who came and donated
bloody freely to the National Blood Transfusion, We are calling for more
donors, ” he said.
This morning at the mortuary, Premium counted
up to 52 corpses laying on the floor of the hospital's mortuary, most
of these corpses were women and children, including seven pregnant
women.
The situation at the Jos University Teaching Hospital was
like a horror story, with about 100 corpses pilled
up on top of each
other, making it hard and impossible to number.
At Bingham
University Teaching Hospital, officials declined to comment on the state
of the hospital as they where busy trying to save some of their
patients in critical condition.
A source at Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH revealed that about 120 corpses was brought to the hospital.
Meanwhile
the Plateau Police Commissioner, Chris Olakpe has revealed that the Jos
main market will be shut until the security officials concluded their
investigations and the area was cleared of debris.
Olakpe confirmed that yesterdays corpses and the injured were taken to four hospitals.
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