Blast hits home of an election winner

Attackers dynamited the country home of Nigeria’s vice president-elect, authorities said, as violence escalated in the nation’s oil-rich south.

Two policemen were killed in the attack on Goodluck Jonathan’s house and a nearby police station, officials said. It was the fourth fatal attack on police in the Niger Delta in a month.

Militant groups making an array of demands, including for a greater share of oil revenue, have carried out bombings, kidnappings and protests that have shut down one-third of the country’s oil production. In the latest kidnapping, gunmen abducted a toddler in an affluent suburb of Port Harcourt.