Another Abuja blast: 'Car bomb' rocks Nigerian capital

An apparent car bomb attack has killed at least nine people in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, officials say.

The explosion happened in the suburb of Nyanya, close to a motor park where at least 70 people died in a blast on 14 April.
Witnesses said it went off near a police checkpoint.
No group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has previously targeted locations in Abuja.

Charles Osueke, who was in the area at the time of the blast, told the BBC that it was just 200m away from the 14 April explosion.
"People in the crowd were saying that a man parked his car, walked away and the next thing they know, the car blew up," he said.
The National Emergency Management Agency said nine people had died and many more were injured.
Campaign of violence Most of Boko Haram's attacks have been in the north-east of Nigeria.
But the bombing on 14 April, which it later claimed, raised fears that the militants could be trying to expand their area of operation.

The BBC's Will Ross in says the latest blast comes at a terrible time for Nigeria, which is also dealing with the the abduction of 230 schoolgirls that happened hours after the previous Nyanya attack.
Boko Haram's fighters have killed more than 1,500 civilians in three states in north-east Nigeria this year.
The group has hit Abuja several times before, including an attack on the United Nations building in 2011.
But before 14 April, there had not been an attack in the capital for two years, our correspondent says.
The Nigerian government had said the violence was contained in a small area of the north-east.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been waging a campaign of gun and bomb attacks since 2009.

Source:BBC