PRETORIA, June 26. /ITAR-TASS/. At least 21 people died and 17 got wounded in a terrorist attack in the capital of Nigeria Wednesday. A representative of the police said the blast occurred in Abudja's Emab Plaza, a shopping mall in the city's business district.

Recently, the situation in Nigeria has seriously deteriorated. Militants of the Boko Haram radical group, whose name is translated from the Hausa language as “Western education is a sin”, have been spreading terror in the country for several years.