Nigeria bank blast kills 40

UP TO 40 people were killed in an explosion which demolished three apartment blocks and tore open a bank in central Lagos yesterday, the Lagos state government said.

“As I’m speaking to you now there are over 30 bodies in the mortuary and there could still be many more dead in the debris,” Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu told journalists at the scene.

He said police ballistics experts would launch an investigation to discover the cause of the blast. Local media described it as a bomb blast.