Police speak on explosion in Abuja, allay fears of bomb blast
The police said it was an explosion caused by an overheated metal refuse container activated under intense heat.
The police said it was an explosion caused by an overheated metal refuse container activated under intense heat.
The police said the injured victims are responding to treatment at the Federal Medical Center, Jalingo, the state capital.
The bomb explosion happened in October 2012 while the worshippers were observing a Mass.
Twenty people were injured, an official said.
The incident occurred at about 4:45 p.m., at one of the pastoralist hamlets in the area.
The terminal was shut in April 2014 following multiple bomb blasts.
Attacks were carried out by suspected suicide bombers.
The blasts, which echoed across the city, occurred at two different spots, about 1km apart.
Three people were killed in a separate attack.
Many Nigerian police officers are feared killed.
The incident occurred less than 24 hours after a similar explosion in a crowded park in Yola, the Adamawa state ...
The cause of the explosion is yet to be ascertained.
The attack took place at a housing quarters.
Initial reports say at least 10 people were killed in the attack.
Two separate explosions killed at least 17 people in the Nigerian capital.
Ninety people suffered various degrees of injuries.
Twenty people were injured.
It is the first bomb attack on an IDP camp since Boko Haram insurgency started 2009.
Security operatives believe the bombing has the imprint of the extremist Boko Haram sect.
The attack is the second on a day Muslims are celebrating the end of the Ramadan fast.
The police said no one died from the blast.
The explosion occurred at an ECWA church.
There has been spate of bombings in some northern states in the past weeks
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