BREAKING: Explosion Rocks Kaduna Community, Critically Injures 10 Children

Tension gripped Kidandan Village in the Giwa LGA of Kaduna State on Saturday afternoon as 10 children suffered injuries in a sudden explosion.

VerseNews reports that the incident occurred while the children were playing with an object discovered in a bush.

Sources indicated that the object, believed to be a bomb, detonated causing severe injuries to the victims.

Alhaji Abubakar Umar Ruka, the Village Head, confirmed the incident, stating that he was in the process of compiling the names of the victims.

According to him, the injured were rushed to Teaching Hospital Shika for treatment. “There were no fatalities but 10 children were injured. They have been taken to the hospital for treatment,” he said

The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the latest incident, noting that all the injured children had been taken to hospital for medical treatment.

The command’s spokesperson, Mansir Hassan, who confirmed the incident to TheCable, described the incident as unfortunate.

Hassan said, “We received the information through the DPO (divisional police officer). You know that area is the operational area where the security agencies are conducting a lot of operations in the bush.”

He regretted that those children picked an object and took it to their school and in the process of dismantling, it exploded.

“So, the young boys went to the bush and they saw an object and took it to the school.

“When they got to the school since they didn’t know what the object was, they decided to open it to see. So, in the process, it exploded and left about nine of them injured.”

The affected children are currently receiving treatment at a medical facility, the PPRO said.

He said the command’s EOD has visited the scene to “ascertain the situation and find out whether it was a bomb or what exploded.”