'At least 71 dead' in Nigeria bus station bombing
At least 71 people have died and 124 are injured after a bombing at a bus station in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, police said.
Islamist group suspected in bombing of Abuja bus station
Although there has been no immediate claim of responsibility to the bomb blast, suspicion has fallen on the Islamist group Boko Haram.
The Islamists, who want to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, have in the past year mostly concentrated their attacks in the northeast, where their insurgency started.
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