Emaba Plaza is a busy shopping mall in the highbrow area of Nigeria's capital city, on Aminu kano crescent.
The explosion apparently occurred at the gate of the busy plaza. many cars are still ablaze. Emergency workers are still arriving the scene. Fire Service is yet to arrive the scene our reporter on grounds said.
16.30
Emergency officials arrived without adequate material. "Tell Joseph to come with enough dead body bags," an emergency official tells colleagues. Soldiers arrived in large numbers. Clearing the place. Traders in tears.
16.25
Fire Service have arrived the scene of the blast. There are frantic attempts to extinguish the burning cars. Traders in the plaza said the blast apparently went off in a car that was driving into the mall.
16.23