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The violence was a further blow... Email Print Related News U.N. finds 118 bodies in western Ivory Coast 4:13pm EDT Explosion hits Nigeria election office ahead of polls 2:22pm EDT Battle rages in Ivory Coast, U.N. fires on Gbagbo bases Mon, Apr 4 2011 Suicide blasts at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kill 41 Sun, Apr 3 2011 Ivory Coast calm as rivals hold positions Sun, Apr 3 2011 Analysis & Opinion Fight against corruption good; what about the method? Can autocrats tolerate citizen participation? Related Topics World » By Nick Tattersall LAGOS | Fri Apr 8, 2011 3:50pm EDT LAGOS (Reuters) - A suspected bomb blast killed at least six people at a Nigerian election office on Friday and four people were shot dead in a political shooting hours before parliamentary polls. The violence was a further blow to hopes of orderly elections in Africa's most populous nation, holding its parliamentary election a week later than planned on Saturday because of logistical chaos. The secret service said six people were killed in the explosion in Suleja, on the northwestern edge of the capital Abuja, but security sources said as many as eight people had died and at least a dozen were injured. "Six people have been confirmed dead. We don't have much detail," Marilyn Ogar, spokeswoman for the State Security Service (SSS), told Reuters. Yushua Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the blast was believed to have been caused by a bomb and there were several casualties. Officials from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said they were hurrying to the scene. Security forces cordoned off streets in the town, where three people were killed and 21 injured by an explosive device thrown from a car at an election rally last month. Nigeria is due to hold parliamentary elections on Saturday, presidential elections a week later and governorship polls in its 36 states on April 26. The run-up to the polls has been marred by isolated bomb attacks on campaign rallies, violence blamed on a radical sect in the remote northeast and sectarian clashes in the center of a nation roughly split between a Muslim north and Christian south. Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 85 people have been killed in political violence linked to party primaries and election campaigns since the start of November. SHOOTING IN NORTHEAST Violence has broken out on the eve of elections in Nigeria in the past and has often been used to intimidate the local population by making them too fearful to come out and vote. Gunmen shot dead four people in the northeastern state of Borno, including an official from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), as they prepared to distribute election materials on Friday hours ahead of the parliamentary polls, police said. "The PDP local government secretary of Shani is among the four people shot dead this evening at the police station while the distribution of election materials was going on," a local police officer told Reuters, asking not to be named. Senior Borno PDP politician Saidu Pindar confirmed the attack to Reuters. Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has been blamed for months of targeted killings of police officers and traditional leaders in Borno, but the violence has become increasingly political in the run-up to elections and many analysts believe the sect's name is being used as a front for political thuggery. 1 2 Next World Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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