No fewer than 48 students were killed and 79 others seriously injured when a bomb exploded at the Government Science School, Potiskum, Yobe State on Monday.

Our correspondents gathered that the explosion occurred at about 7.45am as the students were queuing up for the normal morning assembly.

Eyewitnesses said bodies of the victims were scattered around the assembly ground, while both staff and students ran helter-skelter to rush the wounded to the hospital.

Potiskum, the largest commercial town of the state, was thrown into pandemonium as many parents rushed to the school and other schools in the town to pick their children back home.

All the schools in the town were desolate as the pupils and teachers had fled.

Though no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, the blast is believed to be the handiwork of the Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, which has been carrying out a reign of terror in the North eastern part of the country.

A resident of the town, Ibrahim Ahmed, told newsmen on the telephone, “We heard a loud sound and since then, the area was condoned off but ambulances have been going into the school to pick corpses and take the injured to the hospital. Potiskum has been in pandemonium since 7.45am as a result of the attack on the school.

“I can tell you all schools in the town have been closed now as parents have gone to pick their children. There is wailing everywhere especially around the school where the incident happened.”

The Yobe State Commissioner of Police, Markus Danladi, who confirmed the incident, said he was on his way to the scene of the incident and promised to give details later.

These terrorists are just possessed lunatics.

Oh my God! This is a terrible sight. May God deliver us from the hands of the wicked.

vincencior:
Oh my God! This is a terrible sight. May God deliver us from the hands of the wicked.

Amen ooo

May we never be at the wrong place @ the wrong time ijn

Oooooo my gooood Lord eeeeee!

I swear that Jonathan must go

Keneking:
I swear that Jonathan must go

I shake my head for these APC e-rats. Politicizing peoples' life with your do or die ambition. All your plans will surely fail IJN

this is bad something must be done about this issue this is horrific our government is weak in stopping boko haram insurgency.

choi, na wa o, dey kip on bombing der self, if dm bomb d whole villagers finish, abeg o wetn go happen nxt

Jslicky:
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Is dis d new trend nw on NL, huh

Northern youth wake up. We don't kill ourslef down here in southern. We are all facing corrupt leadership, but that does not say we should start killing each other.


Northern youth stop following your leaders their heart if full of deceit, they hve nothing to over you. Fight them but never harms innocent nigerians, never harms poor Nigeria as we are all facing poor leadership. Our God almighty the creation of heaven and earth will gve no peace to bokoharam and their sponsored.

Boko haram is 6 and 7 with APC

Tinubu you will die a horrible death like the dog you are

Buhari may you live a longer and more frustrated life to see your islamization agenda collapse

El Rufai you shall bury all your children, wives and relations with no one left to bury your withered dwarf bones which dogs shall gnaw on

juventino:


I shake my head for these APC e-rats. Politicizing peoples' life with your do or die ambition. All your plans will surely fail IJN

APC is behind BOKO HARAM. Don't we have intelligence anymore? Why can't the president use the intelligence to fish out these APC BOKO HARAMISTS? Abi just like everything else, He does not know what to do?

He just sits there without taking the BOKO HARAM issue seriously. For God's sakes he is the C 'N' C. He should motivate his army, equip them properly and mandate a daily report or weekly update on activities of the Military in the efforts to quash BH. Let the people see efforts

shigoslim:
Northern youth wake up. We don't kill ourslef down here in southern. We are all facing corrupt leadership, but that does not say we should start killing each other.


Northern youth stop following your leaders their heart if full of deceit, they hve nothing to over you. Fight them but never harms innocent nigerians, never harms poor Nigeria as we are all facing poor leadership. Our God almighty the creation of heaven and earth will gve no peace to bokoharam and their sponsored.

exactly

Ok

samflexxy:
May we never be at the wrong place @ the wrong time ijn

Amen

Too bad.

WombRaiders:
Boko haram is 6 and 7 with APC

Tinubu you will die a horrible death like the dog you are

Buhari may you live a longer and more frustrated life to see your islamization agenda collapse

El Rufai you shall bury all your children, wives and relations with no one left to bury your withered dwarf bones which dogs shall gnaw on

PEOPLE LIKE YOU SUPPOSE TO BE CONFINE INSIDE CAVE

My country is a joke! By God's grace none my children will have anything to do with that zoo...not even in Syria does stuff like this happen.. shame on religious black people, neither Mohammed nor Jesus look anything like you. I just wish Ebola would have done a better job destroying black people who don't realize this

this is fb product na oluwaseun sesan where u they na?

ok
http://erockng..com.es/2014/11/graphic-pics-from-scene-of-blast-at.html

Satan is certainly on the loose and had taken a comfortable residency in the hearts of some people who are still deluded that they are doing the will of Allah.
God know his own...
Those children and their future......oh!

May God grant their parents the fortitude to bear their losts....

RIP Children..