Blasts shake Nigerian armoury
24/02/2005 13:30  - (SA)  

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Lagos - A series of explosions tore through an armoury in a military barracks in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, damaging buildings and causing an unspecified number of injuries, state radio reported on Thursday.

Radio Nigeria said the first blasts were heard about 18:00 local time on Wednesday and continued for another two hours, sparking panic in the city.

Kaduna state governor Ahmed Makarfi later made a radio and television broadcast saying there had been an unspecified number of injuries, but that no deaths were reported, Radio Nigeria said.

Makarfi was reported as saying that emergency workers have evacuated people out of the range of the blasts. There was no immediate word on what caused the explosions at the Dalet military barracks on the outskirts of Kaduna.

More than 1 000 people died in Nigeria's biggest city of Lagos in January 2002 when an ammunitions dump in the Ikeja military barracks erupted in massive explosions, firing missiles into the city of more than 12 million.

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