A female suicide bomber has blown herself up at a
college in north-central Nigeria, witnesses say.
The bomb exploded as the woman was about to
enter a hall packed with students at a college in
Kontagora town, the witnesses added.

Casualties numbers are unclear, but lecturer
Andrew Randa told the BBC he had seen four
bodies - some of them decapitated.
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram is waging an
insurgency in Nigeria.

The group has declared a caliphate, or Islamic
state, in areas it controls in north-east Nigeria.
It has carried out a spate of bombings and
assassinations in north-east and north-central

Nigeria since launching its insurgency in 2009.
Mr Randa said he heard a deafening blast and then
there was pandemonium as people ran away from
the scene.
Soldiers rushed to the college and sealed off the
area, he said.
Three of the four bodies he had seen were of
women, Mr Randa added.

Other witnesses said the bomber died in the blast,
and there were many casualties.

At least seven people were wounded and rushed to
hospital, they told the BBC Hausa service.
There have been several bombings in Nigeria over
the last two weeks - the worst of which was a
suicide attack on a school in Yobe State on
Monday, killing 46 teenage boys.

Boko Haram is opposed to Western education, and
believes that Muslim boys and girls should only
receive an Islamic education.

God have mercy

source:BBC