Initial reports had it that over 50 people have been involved in an explosion in a popular motor park in outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Reports coming in are the death toll has risen to about 200 with more struggling in the hospital. But eyewitnesses are saying the death toll should be around 300.
The explosion sounded in a highly populated motor park in Nyanya less than five minutes drive from the Abuja city Centre.
It is not clear yet how the bomb was ferried into the park, but witnesses suspect it was planted by a suicide bomber. A bus driver who says he lost his brother was able to talk. He explained that while he was able to escape, he thinks the bomb was either planted or the suicide bomber must have died with them. He explained that as he left the scene, he saw people lining up to enter the bus and they all entered before the bus exploded and he was able to disappear.
Several dead bodies now litter the blood spattered park and the expressway leading to the city.
Some of the dead victims and the injured are being taken to over 67 hospital by ambulances and vans belonging to the police, the Vehicle Inspection Office, Federal Road Safety Commission, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the National Emergency Management Agency.
Lots of the people who are in the hospital have lost limbs, ruptures stomachs and vital parts of their bodies. These survivors according to eyewitnesses were luck because they were in the larger buses but those in the small buses were killed in the explosion.
Eyewitnesses also claim there might have been another explosion at another part of Abuja. No group has claimed carrying out the explosion yet but very many people are already blaming the dreaded Boko Haram sect.
The explosion sounded in a highly populated motor park in Nyanya less than five minutes drive from the Abuja city Centre.
It is not clear yet how the bomb was ferried into the park, but witnesses suspect it was planted by a suicide bomber. A bus driver who says he lost his brother was able to talk. He explained that while he was able to escape, he thinks the bomb was either planted or the suicide bomber must have died with them. He explained that as he left the scene, he saw people lining up to enter the bus and they all entered before the bus exploded and he was able to disappear.
Several dead bodies now litter the blood spattered park and the expressway leading to the city.
Some of the dead victims and the injured are being taken to over 67 hospital by ambulances and vans belonging to the police, the Vehicle Inspection Office, Federal Road Safety Commission, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the National Emergency Management Agency.
Lots of the people who are in the hospital have lost limbs, ruptures stomachs and vital parts of their bodies. These survivors according to eyewitnesses were luck because they were in the larger buses but those in the small buses were killed in the explosion.
Eyewitnesses also claim there might have been another explosion at another part of Abuja. No group has claimed carrying out the explosion yet but very many people are already blaming the dreaded Boko Haram sect.
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