POTISKUM: As many as 47 students were dead and 79 injured in a suicide attack at a school assembly in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum, police said on Monday.
According to reports, the explosion happened at a boys’ science and technical school in the town.
Militant group Boko Haram is believed to have caused the blast, police said.
“We have 47 dead and 79 injured,” police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told AFP. The school was a mass of abandoned footwear and blood, resident Adamu Alkassim said.
“The students had gathered for the morning assembly when something exploded in their midst with a thunderous sound at exactly 7:50 am [06:50 GMT],” a sobbing teacher is quoted by AFP as saying.
Victims were being rushed to a nearby hospital, said the teacher, who asked not to be identified.
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