ABUJA Oct 3 (Reuters) - At
least 15 people were killed and 41 injured in a rare double bomb attack in a
Nigeria's capital Abuja on Friday evening, the National Emergency Management
Agency said on Saturday.
A bomb went off near a police station in the
satellite town of Kuje, not far from the capital's airport, and the other in
the suburb of Nyanya on Friday evening - the first attacks on the city in more
than a year.
The blast in Nyanya went off in a crowded area
not far from the site of two blasts in April and May last year that killed at
least 90 people. Before then, there had not been an attack on the capital in
two years.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist group have
lately been concentrated in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, the birthplace
of the insurgency, and the northern parts of neighbouring Adamawa state.
Boko Haram has been trying to carve out an
Islamist state in the country's northeast since 2009, killing thousands and
displacing 2.1 million people.
Since losing most of the territory it took over
earlier this year, it has reverted to hitting soft targets such as markets, bus
stations and places of worship as well as hit-and-run attacks on villages,
mainly in northeastern Borno state. (Reporting by Julia Payne; Editing by
Alison Williams)
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