Police foil bomb attack on customs facility in Lagos

The police in Lagos on Wednesday prevented a bomb explosion, which was targeted at one of the premises of the Nigerian Customs Service along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way in Ikeja.

 

The police  claimed that an unidentified person on Wednesday afternoon dropped an Improvised Explosive Device ( EID)  near the custom’s  fence and escaped

 

The police image maker said, ” On 31/07/ 24 at about 16:00 hrs,a police officer reported at EOD- CBRN base at Ikeja that, while he was on his way along Mobolaji Bank  – Anthony Way, Ikeja, he sighted an unregistered white Toyota car that parked on the main road close to the  PMF 23 barracks and a young man alighted from the car carefully, dropped a bag by the side of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit fence, returned into the and zoomed off .

 

He added that ” Based on report, a team of EOD – CBRN from the base was quickly mobilized to the scene to identify the object and render the same safe if confirmed to be  IED ”

 

According to the police spokesperson, “On arrival, it was discovered to be IED; subsequently, the area was cordoned off, SOP adopted, IED  rendered safe and thereafter taken to a safe distance for detonation accordingly.  ”

 

The police image maker also stated that, meanwhile , the residual of the IED is  collected  for further analysis and investigations