The Niger State Police Command says it is on trail of the owners of the explosives that killed 3 persons at a mining site at Sabon-Pegi in the Mashegu Local Government of the State.
The State Police Command says the warehousing of explosives in a residential area is illegal.
The Commissioner of Police of the Command, Ebenezer Danmaman, while speaking to newsmen in Minna says the warehousing is also an indication of illegal Mining activities by the unnamed individual who is currently on the run.
He expresses his dismay at the failure of the residents of the area to alert the appropriate authorities to the presence of such large number of explosives around them.
According to him the individual who is currently on the run would have been arrested and the explosives evacuated before they caused damage and killed people.
