Bomb Blast at UN Headquarters Abuja Nigeria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zezo-XrUNr0endofvid[starttext]At least 10 people have died after a car packed with explosives was detonated outside the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital this morning, flattening one wing of the building and killing an undetermined number of people.



A UN official in Geneva said that the explosion was caused by a bomb, and initial reports suggest that it was a suicide attack and many more people are feared dead.



Witnesses said the vehicle was driven through one of the UN compound's gates and made its way close to the four-storey building before the explosion.



The final number of causalities at the Abuja building, which was also attacked by a car bomb last month, has not yet been determined.



'I saw scattered bodies,' said Michael Ofilaje, a UNICEF worker at the building. 'Many people are dead.'

He said it felt like 'the blast came from the basement and shook the building'.



The building houses about 400 employees of the UN in Nigeria, including the majority of its offices. A local UN spokesman declined to comment.

Alessandra Vellucci, a spokeswoman for the UN office in Geneva, said the global body's offices in Abuja had been bombed.[endtext]