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Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:33

PhotoNews: Suicide bombing at Thisday Newspaper

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People gather front of the bombed office of ThisDay in Abuja, Nigeria People gather front of the bombed office of ThisDay in Abuja, Nigeria (AP Photos/Gbemiga Olamikan)

Pictures: Suicide bombing at Thisday Newspaper at Abuja and Kaduna

" suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives Thursday at the office of a major Nigerian newspaper in the country's capital and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least seven people in the attacks, witnesses said. The attack in Abuja struck the offices of ThisDay, an influential daily newspaper. The bombing in Kaduna struck a building housing offices for ThisDay, The Moment and The Daily Sun ewspapers, witnesses said. At least 26 people were injured in the attacks. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, though they mirrored others previously carried out by a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of deaths in Nigeria this year alone." - Huffington Post

Shattered vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in the Morroco district in Suleja, outside Nigeria's capital Abuja on February 19, 2012. Another attack on April 26, 2012 that killed three people at a newspaper office is believed to be a suicide attack.

 

Shattered vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in the Morroco district in Suleja, outside Nigeria's capital Abuja on February 19, 2012. Another attack on April 26, 2012 that killed three people at a newspaper office is believed to be a suicide attack. Photograph by: Afolabi Sotunde , Reuters

The body of a victim lies covered on the ground after a bomb blast in front of the office compound of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the northern city of Kaduna April 26, 2012. Two suicide car bombers targeted the offices of This Day in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna on Thursday, killing at least three people, officials and witnesses said. A Reuters witness saw the second attack in Kaduna, when a suicide car bomber drove into the This Day office compound and tried to detonate his explosives but was stopped by bystanders, who dragged him out of the vehicle. The bomb later went off, killing at least one, Police Commissioner Mohammed Abubakar confirmed on the scene. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings. REUTERS-Stringer

The body of a victim lies covered on the ground after a bomb blast in front of the office compound of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the northern city of Kaduna . REUTERS/Stringer

titleA car destroyed by the bomb sits outside the premises of ThisDay Newspapers bombed in Abuja on April 26, 2012.

 

titlePeople look at a tree uprooted and a vehicle destroyed by the bomb outside the premises of ThisDay Newspapers bombed in Abuja on April 26, 2012.
titleDebris is strewn inside the bombed office of ThisDay, an influential daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria
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titleRescue workers tend to an injured man at the site of the bombed office of ThisDay, an influential daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April. 26, 2012, . (AP Photos/Gbemiga Olamikan)

titlePolice Anti-bomb officers stand on the burnt engine of the Jeep used by the suicide bomber that ravaged ThisDay Newspapers in Abuja

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Pictures source & Credit:  AP, Denver Post
Last modified on Thursday, 26 April 2012 20:11

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