High-Calibre Explosives Uncovered Near Kano Mosque

The Kano Police command said it had discovered 13 high-calibre Improvised Explosive Devices at Sauna-Fafunga in Dakata area of Kano metropolis in a rickety car parked near a Friday Mosque at about 1.30p.m. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Aderenle Shinaba, displayed the devices to newsmen in Kano on Friday. “When we got the information, we quickly moved in to the place and in the course of screening the vehicle, our anti-bomb squad discovered the explosives. “The explosives were primed to explode when the Juma’at prayer is going on and they can destroy a whole neighbourhood because they are of high calibre,”  “The cylinders discovered are of high calibre as they can ruin and destroy a whole village,” the commissioner said. Shinaba said the police had to defuse one of them but the Anti-bomb Squad advised that they should be removed from the area.