Updated: Deadly Explosion Rocks Abuja School

A deadly explosion at an Islamiyyah school in the Kuchibiyu Community of Bwari Area Council, about 42 kilometres from the Abuja city centre, has killed two students.

Naija News learnt that the incident occurred at about noon on Monday and also injured four other students.

A source that spoke with Premium Times on the tragic incident said emergency and security personnel, including the police bomb disposal squad, arrived at the explosion scene while the injured victims were rushed to hospital.

The source said, “The dead student, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, bore the substance suspected to be IED while it exploded and injured the other students, thereby causing pandemonium in the centre.

“The students involved were recently admitted into the school, and that they resumed on 3rd January 2025.”

Confirming the incident, a police source who spoke to the aforementioned publication said a Divisional Police Officer received the information and mobilised police operatives, including officials from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), to the scene.

The police said three people from Katsina state who visited the owner of the Islamiya school, Adamu Ashimu, came with the explosives, noting that two of the visitors died in the explosion while the other person was critically injured and hospitalised.

The police added that the owner of the Islamic school, has been arrested, adding he will be interrogated immediately and the outcome would be forwarded.