Newspaper Office Bombings Kill 7 in Nigeria
April 26, 2012
Police and rescuers stand in front of the bombed office of ThisDay, an influential daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria, April. 26, 2012.
Bomb attacks targeted the Abuja and Kaduna offices of one of Nigeria’s most prominent newspapers Thursday, killing seven people and injuring many others. Another bombing late Thursday in Kaduna hit a residential neighborhood, injuring several people and damaging houses.
After the explosion, the crowd that gathers around the gutted
This Day
newspaper office in Abuja quickly become angry. They shouted at soldiers and police, saying there is no security in Nigeria.
Among the dead in Abuja was the bomber, who drove a jeep and killed at least two security guards. Security officers say the bomb most likely was set to go off upon impact and detonated as the jeep rammed into the door. Windows in the surrounding buildings were shattered.
"The suicide bomber came in a jeep and the security opened the gate. We can’t ask them now because they are dead. We can’t find out why they opened the gate for them," said Olusegun Adeniya, chairman of the newspaper's editorial board.
Adeniya said the blast did not reach the news and editorial departments in the back of the building.
Meanwhile, in Kaduna, an eyewitness to the deadly attack there told VOA the bomb exploded just outside the
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