At least 20 killed in bomb blast at northeast
Nigerian school
Mon, Nov 10 04:24 AM EST
DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 20
people, most of them students, were killed in a
bomb blast at a secondary school in Nigeria's
northeastern town of Potiskum on Monday as
they gathered for assembly before classes, a
teacher said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for
the attack in Yobe State, a territory that has
been hit by an insurgency by Islamist Boko
Haram rebels. At least 29 people were killed in
another bombing in the town on Nov. 3.

"As it stands now, we have taken about 20 dead
bodies to the hospital. There are some that are
critically injured and I am sure the death toll
will rise," the teacher at the school told
Reuters, asking to remain anonymous.

(Reporting by Joe Hemba; Writing by Bate
Felix; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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This is the height complacency has gotten us to in this country. A state ravaged by bokoharam at will. How did the bomb get to the assembly ground, is there not suppose to be security measures put in place in schools over there at such a time as this? This is not a game, everyone involved in the protection of lives and properties in this country should get their acts right.