Two Cameroonians and a Chadian were allegedly arrested at the scene of the Nyanya blast, the second bomb blast at a motor park in Nyanya, a suburd of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
This is even as the death toll on the latest blast hit 19.
Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) allegedly nabbed the suspects who claimed to be foreign nationals and could not speak nor understand English language at the scene of the incident, few minutes after the first vehicle exploded.
A top official of the service who spoke to our Correspondent in a telephone interview from Abuja, confirmed the latest development and added that, suspicious and incriminating items have been recovered from the trio.
The arrest has once again confirmed another exclusive story by this Magazine which had on Sunday, March 30th that a Cameroonian business mogul has been arrested in connection with terrorist activities in Nigeria.
Security operatives said the Cameroonian businessman was arrested in the middle of a meeting with persons suspected to be members of the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram.
It was also confirmed that it was a Mazda car that was used for the bombings and that three suspects drove by, parked the car and started running.
“As people started pursuing them, the car exploded creating panic and pandemonium that made them to escape”, the witness said. The witness said three people inside the Golf car parked close to the Mazda died instantly.
Police spokesman, Frank Mba, told reporters who gathered at the scene of the blast that 19 people were injured in the attack.
However, an unexploded bomb that did not detonate after the explosion was found by one of the security men on duty. The whole area was quickly cordoned off to enable bomb experts defuse the bomb, but not without difficulty controlling the crowd and miscreants.
courtesy The Nigeria political economist