BBC News with Marion Marshall

Hospitals in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are struggling to cope with scores of dead and wounded following a series of bomb attacks on Friday. An eyewitness said he thought there were more than 100 bodies at the mortuary">mortuary of the main hospital. Mark Doyle is in Kano.

All day long, people have been

streaming

towards the

mortuary

of the main hospital in Kano to look for the bodies of loved ones so they can be taken for burial. The majority of victims appeared to be civilians, but there were some uniformed police officers among the dead as well.

The series of explosions on Friday evening targeted police stations, a passport office and other government buildings. It was one of the deadliest blows the radical Islamist group Boko Haram has delivered against the Nigerian state. As dusk fell over Kano, armed police and army checkpoints were being set up across the city, and other security measures

tightened up

.

Islamist parties have secured an overwhelming victory in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the downfall of President Mubarak a year ago. The final results showed that the Muslim Brotherhood had won over 40% of the seats. The hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, came second. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.

More than 80 years after they were founded, the Islamists, or the Muslim Brotherhood, are

on the verge of

power in Egypt after a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections. They had been putting themselves forward as