Explosion at School Assembly in a Secondary School in Yobe (42 Killed)

An explosion ripped through a school in northeast Nigeria on Monday, as students gathered for morning assembly before classes began, a teacher and a medic told us. The blast happened at the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum, Yobe state, as students waited to hear the principal’s daily address.

“The students had gathered for the morning assembly when something exploded in their midst with a thunderous sound at exactly 7:50 am (0650 GMT),” said one teacher, who asked not to be identified.
“The explosion has affected many students but I can’t say how many because we are now evacuating the victims to the hospital which is just 100 metres (yards) away,” the teacher added, sobbing.
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 but the scene was a mass of abandoned footwear and blood.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Boko Haram militants are likely to be the prime suspects.
The group, which wants to create a hardline Islamic state in northern Nigerian, has previously carried out deadly attacks on schools teaching a so-called Western curriculum since 2009.



In February, gunmen killed at least 40 students when they opened fire on students and threw explosives into the dormitory of a government boarding school in Buni Yadi, also in Yobe state.
In July last year 42 students were killed when Boko Haram gunmen attacked dormitories with guns and explosives in a government boarding school in the village of Mamudo, near Potiskum.
Potiskum, the commercial hub of Yobe state, has been repeatedly targeted by deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram.
Just last week, at least 15 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack targeting a Shia religious ceremony in the city.
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 fears of the government’s ability to control the region.

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Posted: at 10-11-2014 10:02 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Boko Haram!!! How times do I call u? When unah go stop unah nonsense for dis Land? Pple are dying everyday and yet u guys kip attacking........ there's God ooooooooooooo

Posted: at 10-11-2014 10:34 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

OKAY ,,.

Posted: at 10-11-2014 10:51 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

Hmm mm

Posted: at 10-11-2014 11:30 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

[GOD will increase your knowledge my brother, i have been going through of yours comment here, let them know... AFRICANS we really really need to wake up, Those white crack or what do they call them, has finished us since, We really need to wake up & wise up AFRICANS   ]
The white man's Christianity have accepted same sex marriage ,  we as Africans have been so much brainwashed, they said everything was wrong with a man marrying more than one wife, when we know all the great men in bible married more than two wives and had allot of concubines, before our fathers had the traditional marriage and that was enough, but now if you do the traditional marriage and you don't do the white wedding it seems you haven't married, we must not accept the white man's way of life, we know that Christianity started from Africa and that Africa is the land of God, the spirituality in Africa is bigger than history , i feel so bad to see African talk about homosegxwality, we have customs and traditions keeping this customs doesn't mean you are not civilized.

When they asked you to  throw away all your idols and dietes and oracles, remember they took it back to their country,  all the artifacts in France, Uk, and all over the world that dates back to civilization are from Africa, and yet they told you that Civilization never started from Africa and a black have never invented anything,  the artifacts that the British looted from Benin kingdom haven't been returned and what they could say was that the Portuguese might have help the Benin's to create those arts .

phyuk the white man supremacy , Solomon married hundred of wives and we were meant to understand that they were all princess and such numbers of princess would have only been from Africa knowing Africa is the land of kings and queens , but the white man can only tell you that he married only from Ethiopia.

The whites should stop giving aids to Africa because we are rich, we are the ones to help them like Idi Amin did raise money to help the British when they had a bad economy this is how it should be , we don't need their aids, they should get their hands off our resources and politics.

Kill the white supremacy, the black is not the inferior race no , the whites are the inferior race.
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Posted: at 10-11-2014 12:06 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie

stop hijab in all schools, except in their own. Those supporting the use of hijab are patronizing & sponsoring Boko- Haram.

Posted: at 10-11-2014 01:36 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

Congratulations! The religion that allows innocent and future leaders to be murdered in cold blood must be of Satan.
Is Islam still the religion of peace?

Posted: at 10-11-2014 02:02 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

eyaa

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Posted: at 10-11-2014 06:48 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

it's boko na wetin be no one has claim responsibilty.

Posted: at 11-11-2014 12:38 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie

Education - hating Boko Haram living up to its anagram - HARM A BOOK!

Posted: at 11-11-2014 06:09 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac