Explosion rocks Jos police post

Posted on Aug 17 2012 - 5:35pm by News of Africa Staff Writer

One person was injured when an Improvised Explosive Device exploded near the Rikkos Police Post in Jos on Friday.

The Spokesman for the Special Task Force in Plateau State, Captain Salisu Mustapha, said in a statement in Jos, that the explosion affected the police post and three other houses.

Also affected by the blast that happened on Layin-Walin Street, Jos was one vehicle, the statement added. It said the injured person, one Alhaji Abubakar Adamu, had been taken to hospital, while investigation was ongoing on the incident.

“But the area is calm and people are going about their normal activities,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the STF spokesman as saying in the statement.

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