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Nigeria's Abuja hit by two blasts with at least 15 dead Nigeria's Abuja hit by blasts with at least 18 dead
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Two bomb blasts that hit the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja have killed at least 15 people and injured many more, officials say. A series of explosions on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja have killed at least 18 people, officials say.
The first struck near a police station in Kuje, 25 miles (40km) from Abuja. The second hit a bus stop in Nyanya. The first two struck Kuje township: one by a suicide bomber near a police station, the other a bomb at a market.
No group has said it carried out the attacks yet but suspicion has fallen on Boko Haram Islamists. Another bomb exploded at a bus stop in Nyanya.
While the militant group has attacked Abuja before, its insurgency has mostly focused on the north-east. No group has said it carried out the attacks yet but suspicion has fallen on Boko Haram Islamists, who targeted Nyanya last year.
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, is where the militants first based its campaign to carve out an Islamist state in 2009. The militants, who are fighting to carve out an Islamist state, has mostly focused their campaign on the north-east.
Friday's explosions in two suburbs of Abuja happened "almost simultaneously" at about 22:30 (21:30 GMT), a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency said. More than 40 people were injured in the blasts on Friday night, which security officials described as co-ordinated.
The explosives, Manzo Ezekiel said, appeared to be "the same kind of explosives used in the insurgency" in the north-east. Explosives experts have been combing the scene for bomb fragments.
Thirteen people died in the Kuje blast, while two died at Nyanya, an agency statement said. Police have also stepped up stop-and-search activities in Abuja following the blasts, AFP reported.
Two separate attacks at the same bus station in Nyanya killed 90 people last year. Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power vowing to eradicated Boko Haram, condemned the attack.
Some 17,000 people are said to have been killed since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009. It has intensified attacks since Muhammadu Buhari became president in May, vowing to defeat the insurgents. "My heart goes out to the families of the dead and injured in Abuja, and other parts of the country. Our will cannot be broken; evil will never triumph over good. We will be rid of this evil stalking our land," he tweeted.
This year, security forces have managed to reclaim most of the territory captured by Boko Haram fighters and freed a number of people kidnapped. Some 17,000 people are said to have been killed since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009.
This year, security forces have managed to reclaim most of the territory captured by Boko Haram fighters and freed a number of people kidnapped but militant attacks have intensified.