(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) uja April 14 - Many people are feared dead after two blasts rocked a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday. The blast happened as commuters were about to board buses and taxis to go to work in central Abuja the BBC reported. Body parts and blood were strewn across the station and an unruly crowd of several hundred onlookers were roaming around with security forces unable to keep them away. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that around 40 bodies have been evacuated. "This morning there was an explosion at the Nyanya Motor Park" Manzo Ezekiel of the National Emergency Management Agency said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist militant group Boko Haram which has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency in the northeast. This year Boko Haram's fighters have killed more than 1500 civilians in three states in north-east Nigeria says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos. Boko Haram has hit Abuja several times before including an attack on the United Nations building in 2011. In a news report yesterday the BBC said that gunmen have killed 135 civilians in north east Nigeria since Wednesday. Borno state senator Ahmed Zannah told the BBC that the killings took place in at least three separate attacks in the state
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