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The North Central Zonal Public Relations
Officer of NEMA, Mr Yohana Audu, gave the update to Daily Trust last
night after the Plateau State government said 75 people died in the
blasts.
The Commissioner for Information, Barr Olivia Daziam, who addressed newsmen in Jos, said the government came about its figure after visiting......
six hospitals around Jos metropolis.
Meanwhile, many families in Jos yesterday thronged various hospitals in the city in search of family members who were missing after the twin bomb blasts that led to the death of over 118 people on Tuesday.
Our correspondent observed residents going round hospitals with pictures of missing relations.
Mallam Ibrahim Talle said they had combed the morgue in the Plateau Specialist Hospital and the Bingham Teaching Hospital in search of two of his nephews but none of them had been found.
He said the young men had been trading in the area where the bomb exploded. Another resident, Salamatu Ibrahim, also told Daily Trust that her nephew who sells second hand clothes around the area had been missing since the blast.
“His father is devastated because he is his only child. Even if he is dead, we want to at least find his corpse so we can bury him”, she said.
Families of traders and passersby around Dillimi street, Gangare and Nasaraw Gwong went to hospitals in search of their loved ones.
Mamman Barau, a vigilante official in Nasarawa Gwong said they had received many complaints about missing persons and had been working with families to try to identify survivors as well as corpses.
The Commissioner for Information, Barr Olivia Daziam, who addressed newsmen in Jos, said the government came about its figure after visiting......
six hospitals around Jos metropolis.
Meanwhile, many families in Jos yesterday thronged various hospitals in the city in search of family members who were missing after the twin bomb blasts that led to the death of over 118 people on Tuesday.
Our correspondent observed residents going round hospitals with pictures of missing relations.
Mallam Ibrahim Talle said they had combed the morgue in the Plateau Specialist Hospital and the Bingham Teaching Hospital in search of two of his nephews but none of them had been found.
He said the young men had been trading in the area where the bomb exploded. Another resident, Salamatu Ibrahim, also told Daily Trust that her nephew who sells second hand clothes around the area had been missing since the blast.
“His father is devastated because he is his only child. Even if he is dead, we want to at least find his corpse so we can bury him”, she said.
Families of traders and passersby around Dillimi street, Gangare and Nasaraw Gwong went to hospitals in search of their loved ones.
Mamman Barau, a vigilante official in Nasarawa Gwong said they had received many complaints about missing persons and had been working with families to try to identify survivors as well as corpses.
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