Scores killed as explosion rocks Yobe school
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
11/10/2014
Scores killed as explosion rocks Yobe school
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