ABUJA: A car bomb ripped through the United Nations' headquarters in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Friday, killing at least 10 people, security sources and witnesses said.They said the car rammed into the office building before exploding in an attack similar a June assault on the Abuja police headquarters claimed by Boko Haram, a Nigerian radical sect.
"We have had 10 dead and there could be more," said a medical official who declined to give his name.
The U.N. building was blackened from top to bottom and there mains of a car had fallen into the basement. Soldiers, firefighters and rescue workers swarmed over the area.
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