Gas Bottle Explosion In Bamenda Sends Police Officers Into Hiding

An explosion of a gas bottle around the Hospital Roundabout in the Northwest Regional capital Bamenda, in the early hours of September 14, manipulated by some youths, send some police officers into hiding.

Hospital Roundabout Bamenda is one of the neighbourhoods in the volatile Region that is flooded by military officers since the escalation of the Anglophone Crisis.

In a bid to demilitarise the area even for a few hours, some teenagers manipulated a gas cylinder and caused it to explode, thus cashing-off the officers on guard.

Speaking to this reporter after the incident, one of the police officers, who was on duty that early morning said the explosion which many people thought was a bomb blast, was caused by as gas bottle.

From the investigation we carried out after several hours following the incident, we discovered that the gas bottle was manoeuvred by some young boys to scare us away,” he recounted.

The police officer said all of the boys who were part of that expensive joke were captured by one of the surveillance cameras that have been planted at the Hospital Roundabout to monitor such actions.

“The boys were later arrested and are currently helping us with  our investigations,” he said.