ABUJA, June 17 (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect based in northeastern Nigeria claimed responsibility on Friday for a bomb attack on the country's police headquarters, according to a statement sent to a local newspaper.
Police said they believed a suicide bomber detonated the explosives, which tore through the car park outside the headquarters in the capital Abuja on Thursday, killing several people. They blamed radical Islamist sect Boko Haram.
