The North West regional
capital, Bamenda, over the weekend recorded two incidents of explosion in
different parts of the city, bringing the total number of such occurrences to
three in under seven days.
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| File photo: Bamenda late last year when protest began |
Security in the city is
now said to be on red alert.
After an explosion on Monday September 11, 2017
whose cause, target or those responsible for, is yet to be known, two other explosions
occurred Saturday September 16, 2017 around the hospital roundabout area and near
the congress hall.
Some denizens, who
reached the explosion scene earlier at the hospital roundabout neighbourhood in
Bamenda II sub division that Saturday evening, said they had heard the blast of
“something like a bomb” but they could not get to the explosion site due to
heavy security presence.
This reporter gathered
that it was the second explosion that evening following one that had occurred
in a taxi purportedly carrying a speaker to the Bamenda congress hall which of
recent has been serving as home to many military men deployed to the city of
Bamenda to manage the crisis situation there.
A few things have
however remained unclear about the explosion in the taxi since the car in which
the explosive was said to have been detonated, was not damaged.
However, the driver who
was later taken to the police for questioning, told our police sources that he
was carrying three young men who boarded his taxi from hospital roundabout heading
for the congress hall.
He said when the explosion occurred around the food
market on their way to the congress hall, they (the boys) stepped out of the
taxi and quickly disappeared into thin air.
He then reported the
incident to the police and together with the police, they moved to the scene where
the second explosion occurred.
At the scene, one could
see the remains of a gas bottle just like at the entrance of the North West regional
delegation of public health where the first occurred.
Near the site of the
explosion, close to some Bamenda city council-owned shops, could be seen
another explosive with a gas bottle and some fuel.
Soldiers of the Rapid
Intervention Batalion, BIR, had already stepped in to dismantle the explosive.
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