A bomb blast ripped through the United Nations offices in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Friday as a car rammed into the building, and witnesses said they had seen a number of dead bodies being carried from the site."We have had 10 dead and there could be more," said a medical official who declined to give his name.
One security source in Abuja said he suspected an attack either by Boko Haram, a Nigerian radical Islamist sect, or the North African arm of al Qaeda. Boko Haram's attacks are growing in intensity and spreading further afield.
The U.N. building was blacked from top to bottom and the remains of a car had fallen into the basement. Soldiers, firefighters and rescue workers swarmed over the area.
"A car rammed into the building and exploded. This is very likely the work of Boko Haram and, or, AQIM (al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and is a serious escalation in the security situation in Nigeria," the security source said. "This is the worst thing that could have happened."
Ocilaje Michael, a member of the U.N. staff working at the Abuja building, said he had seen a number of dead bodies after the explosion.
"We just saw the blast coming from the building. All the people in the basement were all killed. Their bodies are littered all over the place. I saw about five dead bodies," Michael said. A Reuters witness confirmed dead bodies being carried into an ambulance.
Boko Haram, whose name translates from the local northern Hausa language as "Western education is sinful," has been behind almost daily bombings and shootings, mostly targeting police in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation.

ATTACK ON POLICE STATION
On Thursday Boko Haram bombed a police station and raided banks in a northeastern Nigerian town, leaving 12 people dead including policemen and a soldier.
In Geneva, U.N. spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci said an official at the U.N. information center in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, had confirmed that a bomb was to blame for Friday's explosion. She had no further information and it was not clear who was responsible for the attack.
"We have deployed our policemen and anti-bomb squad. We can't establish how many casualties (there are)," a police spokesman in Abuja said.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operates in neighboring Niger and has kidnapped foreign workers there. However, it was also suspected of kidnapping a Briton and an Italian in Nigeria earlier this year.
In December 2007, a car bombing at the U.N. building in Algiers killed at least 41 people, among them 17 U.N. staff. In 2003, 15 staff and seven others were killed by a bomb attack at the U.N. building in Baghdad.

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* Yasemekena aliwahi kumuua mkewe na kufungwa jela miaka 8

* Wanakijiji wamtaka ahame, Polisi yaingilia kati

KIKONGWE mwenye umri wa miaka 85 aliyefahamika kwa jina la Sadiki Salehe mkazi wa Ilolo kata ya Ruanda Jijini Mbeya amejikuta matatani kufuatia kulala na maiti ya mtoto wake pekee kwa siku sita.

Habari za kuaminika kutoka kijijini hapo zimesema kuwa wakati harufu hiyo ikiendelea kuzagaa eneo la nyumba yake na majirani, Kikongwe huyo alikuwa akiendelea kuandaa futari karibu na mlango wa chumba cha marehemu hasa ukizingatia huu ni mwezi mtukufu wa Ramadhani.

Mtoto wa kikongwe huyo alijulikana kwa jina la Salehe Sadiki(38) kwa mara ya mwisho alionekana Jumatano ya wiki liliopita(Agosti 17, 2011).

Kikongwe huyo alipohojiwa alisema kuwa Jumatano ya Agosti 24 mwaka huu akiwa nyumbani kwake alikuwa anahitaji dishi la kuogea ambalo lilikuwa katika chumba cha marehemu ambaye alikuwa akiishi nje ya nyumba ambayo ilikuwa ikitizama na ya baba yake umbali wa meta 1.5.

Na mara baada ya kuchukua hatua ya kutaka dishi hilo ndipo alipoenda na kugonga mlango wa chumba cha marehemu na kukuta mlango ukiwa umefungwa huku harufu ikitoka kwa mbali.

Harufu hiyo ilimshtua kikongwe huyo ambaye aliamua kwenda msikiti wa Soweto uliopo Jijini Mbeya kwa Imamu Eliasa Selemani ambaye naye alimtaarifu balozi wa mtaa huo Iddi Malole kuhusu tukio hilo.

Imamu Eliasa na Balozi Malole kwa pamoja walimtaarifu Mwenyekiti wa Mtaa wa Ilolo Benson Mbwana kuhusu tukio hilo la kushangaza ambaye alimua kutoa taarifa katika kituo cha Polisi Mwanjelwa.

Kituo cha Polisi cha Mwanjelwa kilishindwa kushughulikia suala hilo ambalo lilipelekwa katika kituo cha Polisi cha Kati (CENTRAL POLICE) ambacho kiliruhusu kuzikwa kwa mwili huo ambao ulikuwa umeharibika vibaya kwa kupasuka huku Polisi ikiendelea na uchunguzi wa tukio hilo.

Wakati Polisi wakitoa amri ya kuzikwa kwa mwili huo wakazi wa mtaa huo walipandwa na hasira kufuatia tukio hilo na walisikika wakisema kuwa sio mara ya kwanza kwa mzee huyo ambaye hapo awali alimuua mkewe na kumweka uvunguni mwa kitanda kwa zaidi ya siku nne hali iliyomfanya atumikie kifungo cha zaidi ya miaka 8 jela kutokana sakata hilo.

Polisi walipoona hayo ilimuondoa mzee huyo eneo la tukio kwa nguvu ili kunusuru maisha yake.

Wakati polisi ikiondoka na mzee huyo wakazi hao walisikika wakisema mzee huyu hatakiwi kurudi tena kijijini hapo kutokana na vitendo hivyo licha ya sura yake ya upole aliyonayo na kushinda msikitini.

Aidha Mwenyekiti wa mtaa huo alisema sula hilo sasa limo mikononi mwa Jeshi la Polisi hivyo watalishughulikia ipasavyo.