Bomb scare in Abuja over unidentified vehicle parked opposite mosque

FILE PHOTO showing a car bombo found in Kano recently.

A golf car loaded with gas cylinders and Jery cans caused a scare around the vicinity of the Kubwa central mosque in phase 2 site 2 area of the satellite town.

The abandoned vehicle without number plates was parked close to the Kubwa mosques around 7 am this morning, Daily Trust gathered.

According to witnesses many residents and passersby started running afraid that the vehicle is a car bomb.

Eventually the area was cordoned by the police anti bomb squad who were called in by the Imam of the mosques to investigate the mysterious vehicle.

The spokesperson of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, DSP Altine Daniel told Daily Trust no explosive device was found in the area.

She said the vehicle has been towed by the police of the Kubwa Division, noting that the owner of the vehicle might be a cylinder seller and decided to leave the vehicle there after it might have developed a fault.

Also speaking, chief Imam of Kubwa Central mosque Sheikh Abdulmumini Ahmad Khalid, said he alerted the police around 9 am and they immediately responded.

The FCT police spokeswoman DSP Altine... Daniel added that a directive from the Commissioner of Police for the FCT, Joseph Mbu ordered all abandoned vehicle to be scanned.