A bomb detonated at a hotel in northern Nigeria and wounded eight people hours after voters cast ballots in a presidential election, a police spokesman said Sunday.
Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawal told The Associated Press on Sunday that two suspects were in custody and that the man suspected of setting up the blast in the vice president's hometown was among those hurt. Authorities had said late Saturday that the explosion was celebratory fireworks.
Police said Sunday they had no motive for the attack but it came hours after voters in Africa's most populous nation went to the polls. Kaduna was once a ruling party stronghold but preliminary results from Saturday's poll showed voters sided with an opposition candidate.
Nigeria has a long history of violent and rigged polls, and legislative elections earlier this month left a hotel ablaze, a politician dead and a polling station and a vote-counting center bombed.
International observers said Saturday's poll went smoothly despite some reports of irregularities.
There were only isolated reports of violence Saturday. Suspected members of a radical M
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