Death Toll from Nigerian Blasts Rises

People gather front of the bombed office of This Day, an influential daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria, April. 26, 2012. (AP)

People stand at the entrance to the destroyed building of This Day newspaper. (Reuters)

Rescue workers assist an injured person at the bombed office of This Day. (AP)

Rescue personnel recover mangled bodies wrapped in black polythene at the site of a bomb blast at This Day newspaper premises in Abuja. (Reuters)

A police officer points at the site of the bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP)

Firefighters drag a hose through the damaged building of Nigerian newspaper This Day after a bomb blast in its premises in Abuja. (Reuters)

The wreckage of a car after a bomb blast in front of the office compound of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the northern city Kaduna, April 26, 2012. (Reuters)

In Nigeria, the death toll from Thursday's bomb attacks on newspaper offices in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna has risen to at least nine people.