Nigeria: 'Ten Killed' In Shopping Mall Blast

At least ten people have been killed in a blast at a shopping centre in the Nigerian capital Abuja, according to reports.

Witnesses said body parts were scattered around the exit to Emab Plaza, in the upmarket Wuse 11 suburb.

They said they saw a number of bodies in the same area. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The explosion is the latest of a series of violent attacks blamed on suspected Islamic extremists.

Around 120 people were killed in two separate explosions in Abuja in April.

Both were claimed by the terror group Boko Haram who mainly operate in the northeast, where they are based.

On Monday a bomb at a medical college in Kano, in the north, killed at least eight people.

Last week, at least 14 died in a bomb blast at a World Cup viewing site in Damaturu, a state capital in the northeast.

The market bombing in Jos last month

In May, twin car bombs in the central city of Jos left more than 130 people dead; and a car bomb at a bus station killed 24 people in the Christian quarter of Kano, a Muslim city.

Boko Haram attracted international condemnation for the mass kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in April.

It has been blamed for this week's abductions of another 91 people -  31 boys and 60 girls and women including children as young as three.

Schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram

Nigeria's military and government claim to be winning the five-year battle against the insurgents but the tempo and deadliness of attacks has increased this year, with more than 2,000 people already killed compared to an estimated 3,600 in the previous four years.

Boko Haram wants to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, whose 170 million population is divided almost equally between Muslims who are dominant in the north and Christians in the south.

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