47 Confirmed Dead & 79 Injured In Yobe School Bomb Explosion

The Nigerian police on Monday said 47 people were killed while 79 others were injured in the Monday morning bomb attack on Government Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum in Yobe State. Premium Times reports that the police said a suicide bomber disguised as a student detonated the explosive at the school’s assembly ground  at 7.45 a.m. Police bomb experts are already at the crime scene while the victims have been taken to hospital, officials said.

Reports said the students were converged for the morning assembly when the incident occurred. The Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum is one of the densely populated boarding schools for boys, located very close to the Potiskum General Hospital in the heart of town.

The attack on the high school came six days after a similar suicide bombing was targeted at members of the Shiite group, Islamic Brotherhood of Nigeria, also in Potiskum. That bombing took place at Faydia Islamic school, ran by the Shiite. It is located near the old market in Potiskum.

The bomber struck when members of the Shiite were gathering to go on a procession to mark the Ashura Day. Ashura Day is the tenth day of the month of Muharram, the new month of the Islamic calendar.