Police in Nigeria say, a bomb at a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Abuja killed at least 71 people during Monday morning's rush hour. Body parts and blood were strewn across the station after the first such attack near the Nigerian capital of Abuja for two years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency in the northeast. There had been no attacks near the capital since suicide car bombers targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper on this day in Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna in April 2012
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