USA Africa Dialogue Series - Explosion at UN building in Nigerian capital Abuja

our people have been confirmed killed in the aftermath of an explosion at the United Nations building in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Eyewitnesses heard a loud blast at the building, There is no word yet on the cause of the blast. Smoke is said to be billowing from the building. An eyewitness who said he was at Arab Contractors Premises when it happened told elombah.com there could be more casualties in the incident. He said he saw several lifeless bodies rushed to the lifted into an Ambulances and several people were injured. Several people are reported trapped within the building. Local police

 spokesman Jimoh Moshood confirmed the blast, but said police were still investigating the cause.

Update: 

police sources told elombah.com they suspect the cause to be a suicide bombing. A Toyota Camry, 2009 model is suspected to have been used. Rescue operation is on. one complete wing of the building leveled by the blast, witnesses said. A U.N. official in Geneva called it a bomb attack.

Witnesses told The Associated Press on Friday that the blast happened just before 11 a.m. in the same neighborhood as the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic posts in Nigeria's capital. They say many are feared dead.

Police and the wounded thronged the three-story building as people began to search for victims.

Alessandra Vellucci, a spokeswoman for the U.N. office in Geneva, said the global body's offices in Abuja had been bombed.

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