11.   Police and members of the civil guard encircled the building of the transitional parliament to prevent demonstrators from entering, an AFP correspondent observed.

12.   Several homes and cars were also damaged, an AFP correspondent observed.

13.   Scores of armed policemen and other security forces in mufti were strategically posted at two sites in central Lagos designated for the protest rallies, an AFP correspondent observed.

14.   The blood-spattered interior of the bus was littered with body parts, an AFP correspondent observed.