Nigerian authorities have uncovered a shipment of weapons - including rocket launchers and grenades - concealed in containers at its busiest port.
The find at Apapa Port, in the economic capital of Lagos, follows twin car bombings in the capital Abuja on 1 October that killed at least 12 people.
Nigerian National Intelligence Agency spokesperson Marilyn Ogar said security agents intercepted 13 containers at the port and had opened one so far.
She said: "We’ve been able to open just one container, and in a container you have 24 crates.
"Out of the 24, we’ve opened eight so far. Out of the eight, four are filled with floor tiles, while the other four contain rocket launchers, grenades, explosives and mortars."
Officials allowed journalists visiting the holding yard just inside of the port’s main gate to see the 107mm rockets, rifle rounds and other weapons that they had seized.
Ogar said authorities planned to work throughout the night to open all the containers but declined to comment on where the shipment had come from and whether any arrests had been made, citing the ongoing investigation.
Nigerian National Security Adviser Andrew Owoye Azazi declined to say what ship carried the weapons into the port, however, he added the federal government would destroy the weapons
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