Nigerian rebel group says car bombs one-off attack

Nigeria's main rebel group said on Saturday car bombs in the capital Abuja were intended as a one-off symbolic strike rather than the start of a campaign of violence.

"It was a symbolic and opportunistic attack intended as a one-off high profile reminder that the injustice in the Niger Delta has not been addressed," the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in an email to Reuters. (Reuters)