Forty dead in Nigeria explosion
An investigation was under way today into the cause of a powerful explosion that tore apart a bank and dozens of apartments above it in Nigeria’s crowded commercial capital, killing at least 40 people and trapping many others.
Police were investigating a range of motives – including that the blast was part of a bank robbery plot. Looting and bloody fights broke out as hundreds of young men grabbed fistfuls of cash from the flattened bank and battled over them.
