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| Nigeria violence: Blasts rock Abuja bus station | Nigeria violence: Blasts rock Abuja bus station |
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| Two blasts have rocked a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and there are reports of many casualties. | |
| The blast happened as commuters were about to board buses and taxis to go to work in central Abuja, the BBC's Haruna Tangaza reports. | |
| Eyewitnesses say there are dead bodies scattered around the area. | |
| This may have been another attack by the Islamist militant group known as Boko Haram, correspondents say. | |
| Eyewitness Badamsi Nyanya told the BBC he had seen 40 bodies being evacuated. | Eyewitness Badamsi Nyanya told the BBC he had seen 40 bodies being evacuated. |
| "This morning there was an explosion at the Nyanya Motor Park," Manzo Ezekiel of the National Emergency Management Agency said. | "This morning there was an explosion at the Nyanya Motor Park," Manzo Ezekiel of the National Emergency Management Agency said. |
| Rescue teams are on the ground, he added. Ambulances have been taking the injured to nearby hospitals. | |
| Eyewitness Mimi Daniels, who works in Abuja, said: "I was waiting to get on a bus when I heard a deafening explosion then smoke," she told Reuters. | Eyewitness Mimi Daniels, who works in Abuja, said: "I was waiting to get on a bus when I heard a deafening explosion then smoke," she told Reuters. |
| "People were running around in panic." | "People were running around in panic." |
| 'Terrible' | |
| Another eyewitness told the BBC: "I have never seen [anything] like that in my life. It was just terrible... We were just running helter-skelter. Someone was saying they planted something inside one of the buses there. In fact, there are many dead... at the scene." | |
| He added it was difficult to estimate how many had been killed in the attack, but that there were many. | |
| This year, Boko Haram's fighters have killed more than 1,500 civilians in three states in north-east Nigeria, says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos. | |
| Boko Haram has hit Abuja several times before, including an attack on the United Nations building in 2011. | |
| The Nigerian government had said the violence was now contained in a small area of the north-east. | |
| Are you in the area? Did you see what happened? You can send us your eye witness accounts by email to Haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk using the subject Nigeria bus station. | Are you in the area? Did you see what happened? You can send us your eye witness accounts by email to Haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk using the subject Nigeria bus station. |