--- description: An apparent car bomb blew up Thursday near the site of an April 14 bombing that killed at least 75 people and wounded 141. Rescuers are at the scene, and at least 19 people were killed in the explosion, according to a hospital worker title: Nigeria Blast Kills at Least 19 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Nigeria](/tag/nigeria/) ## Nigeria Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Nigeria Blast Kills at Least 19 in Abuja  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent May 1, 2014 9:29 PM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent May 1, 2014 9:29 PM CUT _Updated 4:50 p.m. ET on May 2_ An [explosion killed](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/nigeria-bomb-abuja%5Fn%5F5249245.html "undefined") at least 19 people in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja on Thursday, a hospital worker told the Associated Press. The apparent car bomb blew up near the site of an April 14 bombing that killed at least 75 people and wounded 141, according to officials. The Boko Haram Islamic extremist network claimed responsibility for that bombing, and just hours later, militants kidnapped over 250 teenage girls at a school in the northeast. Fifty of the students escaped from their captors, but 200 of the girls are still missing. (Boko Haram means “Western education is sinful.”) A checkpoint was set up at the location after the April 14 blast. According to witnesses, traffic had built up before the checkpoint before the bomb exploded on Thursday. Earlier in the day at a May Day rally, President Goodluck Jonathan said the perpetrators of the bombing and kidnapping would be brought to justice. Civil Defense Corps spokesman Eman Ekah said rescuers are at the scene. \[[_AP_](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/nigeria-bomb-abuja%5Fn%5F5249245.html "undefined")\] **MORE:** Another Deadly Blast in Nigeria As Country’s Stability Erodes ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/84982/nigeria-blast-kills-at-least-9-in-abuja/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/84982/nigeria-blast-kills-at-least-9-in-abuja/"},"headline":"Nigeria Blast Kills at Least 19 in Abuja","datePublished":"2014-05-01T21:29:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:36:56.057Z","description":"An apparent car bomb blew up Thursday near the site of an April 14 bombing that killed at least 75 people and wounded 141. Rescuers are at the scene, and at least 19 people were killed in the explosion, according to a hospital worker","url":"https://time.com/84982/nigeria-blast-kills-at-least-9-in-abuja/","keywords":["Nigeria","explosion","kidnapping"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nigeria/","name":"Nigeria"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/84982/nigeria-blast-kills-at-least-9-in-abuja/","name":"Nigeria Blast Kills at Least 19 in Abuja"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Another Deadly Blast in Nigeria As Country’s Stability Erodes","description":"Another attack in Nigeria as a car bomb kills more than a dozen. It's the latest example of violence in the African nation that includes hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped from a school and a similar bombing in nearly the same spot in mid-April.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/9MAtt85F/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-02T16:04:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9MAtt85F.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/84982/nigeria-blast-kills-at-least-9-in-abuja/","duration":"PT2M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/84982/nigeria-blast-kills-at-least-9-in-abuja/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```