SEE Graphic Photos from Science High School bomb Blast which killed 47 pupils In Yobe

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A bomb blast which rock Government Science Technical College, Potiskum today claimed the lives of 47 children and injured 97. Musa Ibrahim Yahaya, 17-year-old student at the school who was being treated at the hospital for head wounds told AP

"We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet, people started screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body."

AP reported that most of the bodies taken to the hospital were between the ages of 11 and 20, according to a morgue attendant.

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