MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A federal spokesman  says a bomb has exploded in a vote counting center in northeast Nigeria  after the oil-rich nation cast ballots for its National Assembly. 
A spokesman for the National Emergency  Management Agency told The Associated Press late Saturday night that the  explosion caused "serious casualties."
Spokesman Yushau Shuaib said the bomb  apparently exploded as election workers gathered to tabulate the results  of Saturday's National Assembly election. Shuaib said he had no other  information.
A bomb detonated earlier Saturday at polling  center near a market. Gunmen also set fire to a hotel and shot and  killed a local politician.
 
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