Ogbogu: How my wife died in Suleja bomb

In Niger  “Said WE were together at the  bomb blast in the church premises on Sunday. It was few hours after the close of the church service. The time was about 3 p.m when the bomb exploded, shortly after leaving my wife and few others people at the spot and just less than three minutes before I came back. It was the mangled body of my wife I met on the ground in her pool of blood. I rushed her, carried her but she was stone to dead

These were the words of the husband of one of the casualties of the bomb blast that occurred in Suleja, Mr. Ogbogu, while narrating his experience of the incident that eventually killed his wife.

The 61-year-old father of five said he left with his wife, along with their children, for their house after the church service around 12.30pm on Sunday, only to come back for a meeting at the church premises again later in the afternoon.

As he was trying to open the door, it refused to open and he had to abandon the front door to try another entrance. Just as he succeeded in opening the door, there was a loud bang outside and he rushed to the scene to ascertain what was happening, only to see his wife lying down on the floor with two others in their pool of blood.

The man, who is a building contractor, said he was standing with his wife at the spot of the blast but left to open the door of the children’s hall for the scheduled meeting.