
File Photo: A recent bomb blast in Gombe, at a Bus Station.
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.
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.























