Sad!! Explosion kills One, Injures Atleast Thirty in Cross River State.

The explosion which occurred in a building housing many displaced persons near a vandalised police station in Adadama, was said to have also injured about 30 persons.The people of Adadama and their Amagu neighbours in the Nko LGA of Ebonyi State have for several years been engaged in violent fights over a parcel of farmland that had claimed several lives and displaced many families.

An indigene of Adadama, Mr. Richard Eroko, told Metro on Wednesday, that the man killed in the explosion was identified as Mr. Enya Egwa of Etani clan.

He alleged that the explosive device was suspected to have been planted in the building by their Amagu neighbours in a renewed hostility.

Eroko said, “The explosion that took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, in Adadama town claimed the life of Mr. Enya Egwa of Etani clan and it injured several others. The explosion happened in the early hours of the day at a building close to a vandalised police station near the boundary between Adadama community and Amagu community of Ebonyi State.

“The injured victims have all been taken to hospitals for treatment. The bomb was planted by the Amagu people who have been attacking, abducting and terrorising the people of Adadama over some parcels of land.”Eroko alleged that several Adadama indigenes had been killed in the wake of the renewed hostilities which had been raging since 2013 despite several peace initiatives by authorities in both states.But the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Jimoh Ozi-Obeh, said he was not aware of the latest development.

Ozi-Obeh said, “I am not aware of the development.”

However, one of the youth leaders in the community, Mr. Francis Eke, said the incident had been reported to the police.Eke explained that the number of injured persons was high because the people had been sleeping together in large numbers in buildings since the renewed hostilities started.“We live in groups and in the house where the explosion took place, there were over 30 persons. The people did not suspect that there was any explosive in the house until it exploded. We have reported the matter to the Cross River State Police Command,” he sai