Bomb Factory Discovered by Army in Kaduna State!

The Nigerian Army in Kaduna, on Saturday, arrested a suspected member of a terror group after raiding an Improvised Explosive Device factory in the city.

The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 1 Div. Kaduna, Col. Sani Usman, who disclosed this, said security agents discovered the factory along Abuja Road, Rigasa, Kaduna, on Friday, after one of the devices exploded.

“I wish to confirm that on receipt of information and distress call from some good Samaritans at about 2:21am on August 3, our troops moved to Taro-taro by Abuja Road in Rigasa.

“We discovered an IED factory where suspected terrorists were in the process of coupling the IEDs and we detonated some.

“The factory was cordoned, searched and the following items were recovered: IEDs at various stages of development, cans of 33ccl, a sack containing 33ccl, empty cans and two IEDs packed in fire extinguisher tubes as well as timing devices,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria.

Usman said the troops arrested one suspect, while others escaped, just as two residents in the area were wounded during a shoot-out.

He said the factory had been demolished and advised property owners to be wary of the tenants they accommodate.

The assistant director appealed to the public to volunteer information on suspicious movements of people to security agents.

Meanwhile, Pirates on Saturday attacked a ship being used by an oil servicing company in the Niger Delta, killed two Nigerian Naval guards and kidnapped four foreigners.

“The incident was somewhere around the Niger Delta, where an oil servicing company was attacked by gunmen. We lost two of our men and four expatriates were abducted, one Malaysian, one Iranian,” Navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu told Reuters.

Aliyu said a Thai and an Indonesian were also abducted, but had no further details.

Even though security in the Niger Delta has improved due to the Federal Government’s amnesty programme, piracy and kidnapping in the area offshore, are common, making it the second most dangerous only to the waters around Somalia where piracy is the order of the day.