U.N. building bombed in Nigeria. (Google)

Bashir Adigun of the Associated Press is reporting that a car laden with explosives rammed through two gates and blew up at the United Nations' offices in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, Friday, killing at least seven people and shattering part of the concrete structure.





The building houses about 400 employees of the U.N. in Nigeria, including the majority of its offices. A local U.N. spokesman declined to comment, but a local hospital administrator told the AP that the hospital had treated as many as 40 victims so far, with more people coming in for treatment.


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