Abuja Explosion: Nigerian Capital Rocked By Alleged Bomb Blast In Emab Plaza [PHOTOS]

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UPDATE 1:15 p.m. EDT: Police are now saying there are 21 people dead in the explosion, the Associated Press tweeted:

UPDATE 1 p.m. EDT: The death toll in the Abuja bomb blast has risen to 10, Reuters reported.

"I heard a loud blast, it shattered the windows of the shop. We ran out. A lot of people ran too, some with blood stains," a witness told the news wire service.

UPDATE 12:39 p.m. EDT: At least eight people were killed in the explosion, according to Sky News.

Original story:

An explosion was reported Wednesday by witnesses in the vicinity of a busy market in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the BBC reported.

There were injuries from the explosion, but no other details were immediately available. Some Twitter accounts shared photos of what they said was a bomb blast in Abuja’s Emab Plaza:

The Abuja explosion comes just two days after a blast at a medical school in Kano, in northern Nigeria, killed eight people.