The Nigerian police on Monday averted a plot to bomb a secondary school in the city of Gombe State by defusing a car with explosives that had been abandoned there.

AFP has it that police bomb experts found 12 improvised explosives (IED's)concealed in a car that was abandoned on the premises of the state-run Pilot secondary school, following a tip-off.

“Our ordnance experts discovered 12 IEDs in the trunk of the car left in the vicinity of the school after we were alerted. The explosives had the capacity of causing maximum damage and would have caused huge casualty had they detonated in the school with a high student population,” he said.

Attajiri said an investigation had been launched to establish who was behind the foiled attack, refusing to say if Boko Haram insurgents can be
blamed.

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