Near a military barracks in Abuja, Nigeria on New Year's evening, a bomb is detonated, several people were killed. In some reports, is up to 30 dead mentioned. Abuja - A bomb explosion in the Nigerian capital Abuja have come on Friday evening at least eleven people died. According to a TV report, it could even be up to 30 dead.Cause had been deposited a bomb, said the Air Force general, Oluseyi Petirin. About the background of fact were not disclosed. The accident occurred in a "Mammy Market area known within the barracks, with market stalls and beer halls where soldiers and civilians together eating and drinking.
The explosion had just been eating people, said the head of civil defense, Rabi Saidu. The police initially had an explosion of unknown cause in the barracks Sani Abacha confirmed. Two television stations reported the capital was rocked by an explosion. The recent bomb explosion was not the first act of violence this year in the otherwise quiet capital.
Early October was an attack on the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the independence of Nigeria was committed, which killed at least twelve people. To the attack with two car bombs, the rebel movement known for the liberation of the Niger Delta (MEND), however, was president Goodluck Jonathan, "a small group of terrorists outside" the West African country responsible for the deed.
Only on Christmas Eve with three bomb attacks in the city of Jos several dozen people had been killed.
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