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'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.

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Buses 'were filled up' at the time of Abuja bomb attack

An eyewitness claimed that hundreds may have been killed in a bomb explosion at a bus station on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital.

Abuja resident Anthony Adikwu said: "What I saw is that there are about five hundred, more than five hundred people because the El Rufai buses were all filled up and [there were] about seven to eight buses".

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