Some family members of victims involved in the Emab Plaza bomb blast in Abuja have expressed their frustration over the arduousness they faced in identifying their relatives.
Our correspondent amassed that hundreds of visitors thronged the National Hospital, Abuja on Thursday probing for their relatives who they suspected might have been caught in the blast.
It was learnt that the family members had not been able to establish contact with their doted ones since the incident transpired on Wednesday afternoon.
One of them, Folusho Thompson, verbally expressed that she had visited the Maitama Hospital afore she came to the National Hospital, but expressed regret that she was yet to find her cousin who, according to her, was at the plaza at the time of the blast.
She verbally expressed, “Can you imagine that the explosion burnt many of the victims beyond apperception, making it tough to identify some of them? This is the second hospital that I am visiting today and I am yet to optically discern my cousin.”
A nurse, who did not optate her designation mentioned, verbalized many family members that could not identify their doted ones at the National Hospital were directed to other places where victims of the blast were additionally admitted.
The nurse verbally expressed most of the affected persons were evacuated to the most proximate medical facilities after the blast.
She verbalized the facilities included the Maitama District Hospital, National Hospital, Nigerian Turkish Hospital, Asokoro General Hospital and Alliance Clinic.
