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Newspaper offices bombed in Nigeria, 37 dead
Thursday April 26, 2012 06:44:57 PM,
IANS
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Lagos: At least 37
people were killed and 100 others injured Thursday when a powerful
explosion hit the office of Thisday daily, a leading Nigerian
national newspaper, in the capital city Abuja. A second office was
bombed in Kaduna state.
Abisola Fernades, medical director of Safelive Foundation
Hospital, who was also part of the rescue team, told Xinhua that
at least 37 bodies were taken away by emergency workers deployed
in Abuja.
He said security personnel and emergency workers at the scene of
the explosion in Abuja made frantic efforts to bring out the
mangled bodies of the victims. He said about 100 more people were
injured in the attack.
Yushau A. Shuaib, spokesperson for the National Emergency
Management Agency, said rescue personnel had arrived at both
places to take the injured to hospital.
He said preliminary reports indicate that explosive devices were
planted within the premises, and it was not a case of suicide
bombing.
No outfit has claimed responsibility for the blasts. But the Boko
Haram has been carrying out similar attacks in the country, said
Xinhua.
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