{"id":1160,"date":"2013-03-29T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/37-died-in-kano-blast-igbo-leaders\/"},"modified":"2013-03-29T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T15:43:34","slug":"37-died-in-kano-blast-igbo-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/37-died-in-kano-blast-igbo-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"37 died in Kano blast \u2013 Igbo leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two weeks after the bomb blast that rocked the New Road motor park, in which many lost their lives, the leadership of the Igbo community in Kano, Friday, said 37 people actually died in the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n

They also admitted that some people are still missing since the incident.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Reporters in his Palace, on Friday, Eze Ndigbo in Kano, Igwe Boniface Ibekwe, alongside the president-general of the Igbo Community (ICA) in Kano, Chief Chi Nwogu, also said 75 were wounded in the blast.<\/p>\n

He said they arrived at this figure after careful collation of data on the affected victims.<\/p>\n

I t would be recalled that in the wake of the attack, the state police command said 22 people were killed, with 62 suffering varying degree of injuries.<\/p>\n

The state governor, Rabi Musa Kwankwaso, put his own record of injured persons at 25, with a claim that many of the victims are from the north.<\/p>\n

The Igbo leaders also said the attack was not targeted at any particular ethnic group as perceived in some quarters, even as they sent a passionate appeal to the Federal Government and Kano State government to compensate the families of the deceased and injured victims, as well as owners of the burnt buses.<\/p>\n

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