(http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/thumbnail.php?file=thisday_192748691.jpg&size=article_medium) Police Anti-bomb officers search for clues on burnt engine of the Jeep used by suicide bombers that ravaged ThisDay Newspapers in Abuja on Thursday. Photo: Getty Images A bomb explosion apparently targeted at media houses exploded at about 11.30am on Thursday along Kontagora Road in the heart of Kaduna metropolis, killing three people and leaving scores of others injured.
A suicide bomber drove a Honda Academy car with registration number Al 306 MKA into the SOJ plaza housing ThisDay, The Sun and The Moment newspapers located at 9 Kontagora Road in Kaduna metropolis, but when the car failed to explode, he reportedly jumped out shouting “bomb, bomb, bomb.”
Other newspaper houses around the vicinity, but located a few metres away from the scene of the explosion include The Nation, Peoples Daily, Sunlight owned by Taraba State government, Daily Independent and the circulation office of Leadership newspaper.
Business premises within the area were immediately closed as police cordoned off the area, but found it difficult moving into the building as angry youths besieged the place threatening to burn down the building which was the prime target of the attacker.
The youths came from all direction and took over the roads in large number and it took the combined team of army and police a hectic time trying to control the crowd.
They fired into the air and flogged the youths before they could make way for the fire fighting vehicles to move into the building to put off the fire on the car.
The angry youths, who were apparently angry with the security men for not allowing them to kill the suspected bomber reportedly set fire on the car while some of them started throwing stones into the building, breaking some of the glasses in the process.
The Nation gathered that 11 camp cylinders neatly wired together and connected to the steering of the Honda Academy car were found inside the vehicle when the police came to remove it from the premises.
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