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Nigeria: More than 200 people died

Nigeria: More than 200 people died

Over 200 people are estimated to been killed dut to a huge explosion outside Abuja, Nigerian capital, as eyewitnesses and local media have reported.

The explosion occurred on a busy bus station in one of the main roads in the suburb Engiangian, which leads to the commercial center of the capital.

At least two hundred bodies are lying on the bus stop, many of them hard to be identified, according to the online version of Premiun Times of Nigeria.

Dozens of buses with passengers onboard, among them 12 government vehicles, were destroyed due to the blast. In the region, soldiers, police officers and firemen were sent in order to control the situation, according to Joseph Odo, a resident who spoke to the German press.