On 1 May 2014, a car bomb exploded in New Nyanya, a town in Nasarawa State, Nigeria.

[1] More than 15,000 people have been killed in Nigeria over the last 15 years in this conflict.

Most attacks involve religious motivation; typically stemming from demands for Islamic Sharia law to replace supreme secular law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A car with explosives inside of it drove up to a police checkpoint.

This caused smaller explosions to occur as other cars caught on fire and exploded.