A bomb in a school in northern Nigeria has killed at least
48 people, a week after Boko Haram denied any ceasefire
and ridiculed government claims of a peace deal At least 48 school students have been killed in Nigeria after a
suicide bomber apparently dressed in school uniform detonated
explosives in a packed assembly meeting.
Around 2,000 students - some as young as 11 - were waiting to
hear the principal's Monday morning address when the blast
ripped through the crowd. Eyewitnesses spoke of horrific scenes
as body parts were scattered all over the school compound. The
mood then turned to anger, with soldiers who turned up to
secure the area pelted with rocks by locals, who accused them
of failing to protect the area against terrorist attack.
The bombing took place at the Government Technical Science
College in the city of Potiskum, a town of 200,000 in north-east
Nigeria's Yobe state and a regular target of attacks by the Boko
Haram Islamist group. Only last week, a suicide bomb in the
same city killed 30 people taking part in a religious procession
of moderate Muslims.
Musa Ibrahim Yahaya, survivor of the school bombing, spoke to
the AP news agency from his hospital bed, where he was being
treated for head wounds. "We were waiting for the principal to
address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening
sound and I was blown off my feet," he said. "People started
screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body."
Aliyu Abubakar, a Potiskum resident, said he heard the
explosion when he was dropping off his two sons at a nearby
Islamic college. "One of my sons fell down, I came out dragged
him in and we drove off back home," he said.


A morgue attendant said 48 bodies were brought to the hospital
and all appeared to be between the ages of 11 and 20 years old.
Hospital workers said the scale of the injuries was so bad that
some of the injured were likely to need amputations.
Survivors said the bomber appeared to have hidden the
explosives in a type of rucksack popular with students.
Nigeria's military recently reported finding a bomb factory where
explosives were being sewn into rucksacks in the northern city
of Kano.
While there has so far been no claim of responsibility for the
attack, suspicion will fall on Boko Haram, which has carried out
numerous bombings and Mumbai-style gun attacks during the
five-year insurgency it has fought in its bid to turn an Islamic
caliphate in northern Nigeria. The group, whose name roughly
translates as "Western education is sinful", has focused many of
its attacks on schools.
In February, gunmen killed at least 40 students after throwing
explosives into the dormitory of a government boarding school
in Buni Yadi, also in Yobe state. And
in July last year, 42 students were killed when Boko Haram
attacked dormitories in a gun and bomb attack on a government
boarding school in the village of Mamudo, near Potiskum.
Boko Haram's most high-profile attack on a school came in
April, when fighters kidnapped 276 girls from the town of Chibok
in Borno state, also in northeast Nigeria.
More than six months later, 219 of the girls are still being held.
Claims last month that the girls were to be released as part of a
ceasefire deal were rubbished on Sunday in a new video
broadcast by Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau.


A medic at the Potiskum General Hospital, where the victims
were taken, said scores of students had been admitted. "We are
still receiving casualties from the school which is a stone's
throw from here," the medic said.
"Our priority now is to save the injured, so we have not started
a headcount of the victims."
A local resident, Adamu Alkassim, said there was confusion in
and around the school. The scene was a mass of abandoned
footwear and blood.
Yobe is one of three northeastern states that has been under a
state of emergency since May last year to try to quell the bloody
insurgency.
But violence has continued unabated and Boko Haram has
seized at least two dozen towns and villages in recent months,
raising doubts about the government's ability to control the
region.

GEJ till 2019 indeed

Sad,,,,,but what were 2,000 students doing in a single school

GEJ,don't let America prediction that"by 2015 Nigeria may break"come to pass.

Really sad wat greed n corruption has turned us into . #LordHaveMercy

It is well with our country NIGERIA...

may it nt be well wit boko nd der sponsors

sumppl are heartless, CHILDRENNNNN? Haba...

NIGERIA !!! what a mess, what a failure,what a dissapointment,what a country!!!

Louis000:
Sad,,,,,but what were 2,000 students doing in a single school

Command Secondary School, Ibadan had more students when I was a student there. We were more than 2000. I don't know about now. Maybe, 4000 now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_FWoR8Chw

[size=15pt]Suicide Bomber Dressed as Student Kills 48 in Nigeria's Yobe State School[/size]

Survivors told the Associated Press that the explosives detonated Monday morning during the weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College in Potiskum, capital of the Yobe state. They also said that the bomber was disguised in a school uniform and carried the explosives in a rucksack commonly used by students. Hospital workers say dozens are being treated and amputations are likely, while a morgue worker told the AP that at least 48 people had died. Soldiers rushed to the grisly scene, but were chased away by people throwing stones, angry at the military's inability to halt a 5-year-old Islamic insurgency that has killed thousands and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_FWoR8Chw

[size=15pt]Suicide Bomber Dressed as Student Kills 48 in Nigeria's Yobe State School[/size]

Survivors told the Associated Press that the explosives detonated Monday morning during the weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College in Potiskum, capital of the Yobe state. They also said that the bomber was disguised in a school uniform and carried the explosives in a rucksack commonly used by students. Hospital workers say dozens are being treated and amputations are likely, while a morgue worker told the AP that at least 48 people had died. Soldiers rushed to the grisly scene, but were chased away by people throwing stones, angry at the military's inability to halt a 5-year-old Islamic insurgency that has killed thousands and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Dem stone d goats well

GEJ till boko is truly haram in Nigeria.