Many Students Killed As Bomb Rocks Science High School In Yobe State

Suicide bomber sent by Boko Haram sect has killed several students at the Government Comprehensive Secondary Science School in Pokistum, Yobe state. A military officer in Damaturu confirmed to SaharaReporters by telephone, according to him, a bomb exploded during a daily morning assembly with hundreds of students in attendance.

The military source said over 30 bodies of students and teachers lay in the assembly area with many others sustaining injuries. Other schools in the area have been closed down.