KANO – The Kano commander of Shia movement in Nigeria, Muhammad Mahmud Turi, Friday, said 21 members of the sect lost their lives while 45 others were injured when a suicide bomber struck the procession at Dakasoye village near Kano.
Sheik Turi told reporters that the incident occured by 2.00pm shortly after a suicide bomber was caught by its vigilante group in the procession who confirmed that another bomber was in the midst of the procession.
Turi explained that the loose suicide bomber detonated his bomb at the point of been captured alive by the search team.
The revered religious figure said that the tragic incident would not deterred the group from carry on with the journey to Zaria, adding that ‘you don’t display cowardice or cowed by death threat when carrying out religious obligations.”
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