According to police spokesman Yemi Ajayi told AFP "I can confirm there was an explosion at the U.N. building," "We have deployed our policemen and anti-bomb squad. We can't establish how many casualties (there are)." ambulances were seen carrying casualties from the site according to Witnesses.
In Geneva, U.N. spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci said an official at the U.N. information centre in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, had confirmed that a bomb was to blame.
She had no further information and it was not clear who was responsible for the attack.
Nigeria has been hit by a wave of bombings claimed by Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect. The sect has been behind the spate of bombing mostly in the northern part of the country." Boko Haram" literally means "Western education is sinful" and is believed to have links and sponsorship from al queda an international terrorist group.
On Thursday it bombed a police station and raided banks in a northeastern Nigerian town, leaving 12 people dead including policemen and a soldier.
Ocilaje Michael, a member of the U.N. staff working at the building was quoted to have said "We just saw the blast coming from the building. All the people in the basement were all killed. Their bodies are littered all over the place. I saw about 5 dead bodies," . Dead bodies were being carried into an ambulance.
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This is really terrible. the international community to be interested in helping out in dealing with this issue as i believe Al quada is using boko haram to attack internationa,l institution. it is a global threat and goes beyond nigeria alone.
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