Nigeria: How We Escaped Death in Warri Explosion - Survivor

17 March 2010

Being the first working day of the week, a trader Mrs. Rebecca Okafor was full of expectations. She was to follow her husband to the market to sell some farm produce, a business that has been the source of livelihood for the family for years. Unfortunately, an unforgettable incident put paid to her optimistic expectations and at the end of it all her husband was left almost bleeding to death.

That was last Monday in Warri, Delta State, when an explosion rocked the venue of a post-amnestsy dialogue leaving a motorcyclist dead and seriously injuring several others as they scampered for safety.

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