Pastor Avanti Jonas and his wife, Alice of Hephzibah church
located in Kado area of Abuja have every reason to be thankful as they
narrowly escaped death by a whisker in the Abuja bomb blast, yesterday, which left 21 people dead and 17 injured, according to the police.
Pastor Avanti Jonas and his wife - Scene of the blast
According
to National Enquirer the Pastor and his wife who got married last year,
2013 had gone to the Emab Plaza where the blast occurred before it
escalated and spread to Banex to buy some few items. Seeing that they
wanted to get just dew things, they both agreed that the wife sits back
in front of their Toyota jeep which was parked directly opposite the
plaza while the Pastor hurriedly went in.
No sooner the Pastor
left the shopping center than the bomb exploded, the man of God who
luckily escaped was already in tears thinking that his wife had been
killed in the blast.
According
to an eye witness, the pastor had even started mourning his wife,
crying uncontrollably at the sight of a corpse which looked like his
wife until he saw the watch on the woman left wrist, he was later
convinced the corpse was not his wife.
Meanwhile, the wife who
was gathered to escaped death by squeezing herself through the window of
the jeep to get her also thought had husband had died, not until they
finally saw each other.
The car almost a total wreck with the
windshield shattered as a result of the couple, the couple are however,
very grateful to God for sparing their lives.
Meanwhile its been
reported that the Coordinator, National Information Centre, Mr Mike
Omeri, disclosed yesterday that one of the suspected bombers of Emab Plaza on Aminu Kano Crescent in Wuse 2 in Abuja was killed by soldiers killed and arrested another.
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