Death toll rises to 71 at bus station in Nigeria

Published April 16, 2014 · Updated September 28, 2022

Vehicles are on fire after an explosion Monday, April 14, at a bus station on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria. At least 71 people were killed and 124 injured when a parked vehicle exploded at the Nyanya Motor Park bus station, Nigerian officials said.

CNN :
At least 71 people were killed when a parked vehicle exploded at a bus station in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Monday morning, Nigerian officials said.
Another 133 people were injured in the explosion on the outskirts of the city, national police spokesman Frank Mba said.
The attack happened at about 6.45 a.m., as the Nyanya Motor Park bus station was crowded with early morning commuters. One first responder at the scene told CNN “bodies were scattered everywhere.”
“We’re still treating people with injuries and collecting data,” said Ishaya Isah Chonoko, zone coordinator at the National Emergency Management Agency in Abuja.
Information about what caused the blast wasn’t immediately available. Charles Otegbade, the emergency management agency’s search and rescue chief, said the explosion came from a vehicle that was parked at the station.
Interpol, which has offered its assistance to the team investigating the explosion, condemned what it called a “senseless and cowardly terrorist attack.”
“This slaughter of innocent members of the public will have appalled citizens of all countries,” the organization’s Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said in a statement. “Interpol condemns this mass murder in the strongest possible terms and we express our solidarity with the people of Nigeria at this difficult time.”