Scores of people were feared dead in a deadly explosion that occurred at a popular shopping mall, Emab plaza located in Aminu Crescent, Wuse 2, District of Abuja, Nigeria federal capital territory on Tuesday afternoon.

Though details of the explosion were still scanty as at the time of writing this story, witnesses told  that the explosion occurred around 4 pm. The explosion set many cars ablaze and thick black smoke billowing from the scene could be seen many kilometres away.

A journalist living in the vicinity of the shopping plaza told  that the force of the explosion was strong enough to throw her off her chair in her house which is about 500 metres away from the Plaza.

Shop owners in the Plaza however said the explosion went off from a car driving into the Plaza.

The Police have cordoned off the scene of the blast as at the time of writing this story.

Abuja was rocked by two successive bombings in April, with the first one on 14 April at Nyanya bus park, killing over 70 people. A week after another car bomb in the same area killed 19 people. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the two bombs.

source: http://ralphcrowns.blogspot.com/2014/06/breaking-news-scores-feared-dead-in.html

A horrific road rage attack where a man struck a car carrying two children with an axe has been caught on camera.
A middle-aged man and a father in his 30s with his children in the back of his Audi were at first engaged in a shouting match, which turned violent as the first began hitting the car.
A girl aged around seven is heard screaming in fear and holding her hands over her eyes.
The horrific incident in Russia has led to a major hunt for the middle aged driver who perpetrated the shocking attack.
Road rage: A man was filmed wielding an axe and striking a car with two children in the back on a highway in St Petersburg
A minor dispute on a highway near a park in St Petersburg led to the appalling altercation, with a hysterical woman begging the angry driver of a black Land Cruiser to calm down before the incident exploded into violence.
The dispute began when the driver of an Audi car - a man in his 30s - hooted when the other vehicle stopped abruptly in heavy traffic.
 The two cars did not bump, but prompted a roadside shouting match.
Throughout the woman with the enraged Land Cruiser driver tries to calm him, but he constantly fights off her attempts during the spat on the busy highway.
After several minutes of enraged argument with the driver of the Audi - in which two small children were in the back seat - the white shirted owner of the Land Cruiser suddenly went to the back of his vehicle and pulled out a long-handled axe.
 
Attacker: The two drivers had a heated exchange by the side of the road before the driver of a black Land Cruiser grabbed an axe

'Papa!': Two children sitting in the back of the Audi could be heard screaming in terror for their father

The Land Cruiser driver strikes the bonnet of the Audi and the windshield with the axe
The saloon car driver rushed back into his car, and began reversing it when the axe man smashed his weapon onto the bonnet of the car.
A second blow hit the windscreen of the Audi manoeuvred his car away.
The children in the car are heard screaming, as is the woman - possibly the attacker’s wife - as she tried but failed to restrain him.
He then aimed another blow at the back seat window where the children were sitting, but failed to strike the car.
Amid the anguished screams two children's voices are hearing shouting ‘Papa!’.
The axe man struck the Audi three times, fortunately not harming anyone inside the car.
As the children scream in the back seat, the Audi driver tries to get away from the axe-wielding attacker by reversing

Terrifying: The woman who had been travelling with the attacker tried in vain to hold him back from striking the Audi once more
By an inch: The man strikes the Audi three times before it gets away, but attempts to follow in on foot
He then chased the Audi on foot but soon gave up, returning clutching his weapon.
The Audi driver made away, and was followed by another the driver who had filmed the road rage nightmare but not intervened as the horror unfolded.
This third driver offered the Audi driver his footage to show to the police.
One scared girl was seen through the back window of the Audi.
‘Brother, I filmed everything, let me give it to you and help,’ he said.
Police have launched a hunt for the axe man who is understood to have left the scene after the attack.
It is now routine for drivers in Russia to have dashboard cameras to use as evidence in insurance claims, and to lower the risk of being framed by bribe-taking traffic police.

source: http://ralphcrowns.blogspot.com/2014/06/terrifying-moment-russian-driver.html