So i was surfing tbrough the ecotrain community i saw a post by the admin of the community 
I was like it seems the admin of the community was a prophet who knew the thoughts i had in mind , just some few hours ago i was thinking that i was going to share my personal story of how i survived a bomb explosion in 2002 when i was just five years old...I wanted to write the story on 27th of january which makes it exactly 20 years after the tragedy occured...but let me just share it now .
There are many scenes which occured during that day but i can only state the ones i could remember clearly..
So on that fateful day , it happened to be on a sunday because i could remember on that day that i and my siblings went to church in the morning , there was a programme going on at the church on that day so we closed late at church...
i cannot remember the exact time we got home on that but i know it was in the afternoon , so when we got home my mum decided to make lunch for the family , because she started cooking late , before the food was ready it was getting towards the evening , so while i and my younger brother were trying to go and meet our mom to collect our food , we suddenly heard a very loud noise while the house was shaking...
With a scary voice i screamed "daddy mi.." Daddy mi means "my dad" ....i and my brother quickly went to my dad's room which was closer to where we are at that point , so my dad then told us to wait inside the room while he went outside the house to know what is happening...While he was going , another louder "BOOM" sound came up again and everywhere was literarily vibrating , he quickly moved my mom and i and my younher brother away from the house because he thought maybe the house was about to collapse or maybe something related to that..
While we were going outside , we got another shock when we saw everyone at the neighbourhood standing outside with fear written all over their faces ...everyone kept screaming what is going on , then before we know what was happening we heard another loud noise and saw heavy flames from far distance , while we were scared and all wondering what is going on , then we saw crowd running from the next street and they were screaming BOMB OOOO BOMB OOOOO BOMB OOOO bomb is blowing and it is coming towards us ,without wasting time my dad quickly took us inside his car , then some of our neighbours joined us too and the car was filled up then he started running as far as he can just to leave the environment , guess what ??The direction which we were running to which we thought was safe was the exact place the bomb explosion was happening and the place is called "ikeja cantonment" ...So it was like we went from
" Out of the frying pan into the fire "...
It was that day i knew that fears kills faster , i was already having difficulty with breathing and i was extremely scared , then the explosion increased and the houses were getting burnt down , shops collapsing , everywhere got dark with huge fire everywhere and everyone were just running helter-skelter and boom stampede occured which was even as worse as the bomb explosion that the large crowd where running from and that caused a heavy stampede which made alot of people jump into a place which was a verg large and deep canal including i and my family members..how i survived the stampede was still a miracle to i and my family because most people died inside the canal , infact most of our neighbours died instantly including those ones that inititally followed us in the car and till now i am still wondering how i survived that tragedy because everyone around at the left , the right , the back ,the centre were all dead and the bomb explosion still continued and those of us that were alive was still running inside the canal towards any direction we see and it was dark already..infact i was stepping on dead people while running ..it was a terrible experience which got me traumatized for years.....i can never forget that day in my life... january 27, 2002......Sighs...
For those who might not be aware of the tragedy that occured that day , you can read more about the tragedy here