( CNN ) -- At least eight people were killed , including one suicide bomber , and dozens were wounded in three bomb blasts in central and northern Nigeria on Thursday , the Red Cross said . The targets of the first two bombs were newspaper offices , the country 's president said . The third blast , in the northern state of Kaduna , was confirmed by emergency management officials , but no information on casualties or damage was available . In the first incident in Kaduna , a man drove a vehicle into a two-story building that houses three national newspapers : ThisDay , The Moment and The Sun . According to a reporter at one of the dailies , when the car hit the wall , passers-by and newspaper staff ran to the site to see what happened . According to the Red Cross , the bomb did not explode on impact , and the bystanders tried to get the suspected bomber out of the car . Once that was accomplished , the suspect threw a bomb at the bystanders , killing four and wounding 19 , then tried to flee , the Red Cross said . Other bystanders caught the suspected bomber and turned him over to police . Within 30 minutes of the first blast in Kaduna , a suicide bomber in the central city of Abuja detonated a bomb that killed four people , including himself , said the Red Cross , which described the explosions as `` the first direct attack on the media by ( an ) unknown armed group . '' Seven people were wounded , it said . Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attacks on the newspaper offices , calling them `` ignoble , misguided , horrendous and wicked . '' Journalist Safiya Akau contributed to this report .
A third bomb blast is confirmed in Nigeria , Red Cross says . At least eight people reported were killed , including a suicide bomber . Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemns the attacks .