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Victims of attack on Abuja UN building remembered, nine years after

The United Nations (UN) has remembered its colleagues and partners killed in the suicide bombing at its headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja nine years ago.

Dateline recalls that no fewer than 18 people were killed in the attack which left lower floors of the building shattered. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack which took place on Friday, August 26, 2011.

The UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria Mr Edward Kallon said in a post on his twitter handle that “Today, we remember our colleagues and partners killed in the attack on the UN House in Abuja at 10.25 a.m. on 26 August 2011. 

“We will continue to uphold our core values of peace, freedom, tolerance and justice; and raise our voices against threat of terrorism,” he added in the tweet copied to Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Amina J Mohammed.

The UN building serves as the UN’s main office in Nigeria, hosting 26 humanitarian and development agencies and about 400 UN employees, but it was not clear how many were inside the building at the time of the attack.

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