Africa › Egypt       01.05.2014

Bomb attack in Nigeria capital kills at least 16

Security forces stand guard as an investigator carries a bag of items recovered from the site of a bomb blast in Abuja on April 15, 2014. By (AFP/File)

Abuja (AFP) - A bomb attack Thursday at a bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital killed at least 16 people, an AFP journalist and a witness said.

An AFP correspondent at the Asokoro General Hospital in Abuja saw nine dead bodies which had been brought from scene of the attack, while a witness at the same hospital who requested anonymity confirmed that seven other corpses had arrived.

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