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| Explosion hits Nigeria's capital | Explosion hits Nigeria's capital |
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| An explosion has hit the Nigerian capital, Abuja, near the scene of a deadly bomb attack last month. | |
| The blast happened in Nyanya, close to the bus station where at least 70 people died in an attack on 14 April. | |
| Initial reports say a number of people have been killed and many more have been injured. | |
| Correspondents say it was caused by a car bomb. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has previously staged attacks Abuja. | |
| One eyewitness said he saw 20 bodies at the scene. | |
| No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. | |
| Most of Boko Haram's attacks have been in the north-east of Nigeria. | |
| But the bombing on 14 April raised fears that the militants could be trying to expand their area of operation. | |
| The BBC's Will Ross in says the latest blast comes at a terrible time for Nigeria, which is also dealing with the the abduction of 230 schoolgirls that happened hours after the previous Nyanya attack. | |
| Boko Haram's fighters have killed more than 1,500 civilians in three states in north-east Nigeria this year. | |
| It has hit Abuja several times before, including an attack on the United Nations building in 2011. | |
| But before 14 April, there had not been an attack in the capital for two years, our correspondent says. | |
| The Nigerian government had said the violence was contained in a small area of the north-east. | |
| Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been waging a campaign of gun and bomb attacks since 2009. |