Awful: Bomb Blast Hits Yobe Secondary School, Many Students Feared Dead

In a sickening development, scores of students have been killed and several others wounded as an explosion occurred at Government Science College, Potiskum, in Yobe state this morning (Monday).

The suicide bomber was said to have dressed in the school’s uniform to avoid any suspicion and detonated the explosive during the assembly period of the school.

Eyewitnesses said bodies of the victims were scattered around the assembly ground, while both staff and students ran helter-skelter to rush the wounded to the hospital.

Survivors and an attendant at a local mortuary have put the casualty figure at 48, AP reports.

Potiskum, the largest commercial town of the state, was thrown into pandemonium as many parents rushed to the school and other schools in the town to pick their children back home.

All the schools in the town were desolate as the pupils and teachers had fled.

Though no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, the blast is believed to be the handiwork of the Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, which has been carrying out a reign of terror in the North eastern part of the country.

A resident of the town, Ibrahim Ahmed, told newsmen on the telephone, “We heard a loud sound and since then, the area was condoned off but ambulances have been going into the school to pick corpses and take the injured to the hospital. Potiskum has been in pandemonium since 7.45am as a result of the attack on the school.

“I can tell you all schools in the town have been closed now as parents have gone to pick their children. There is wailing everywhere especially around the school where the incident happened.”

The Yobe State Commissioner of Police, Markus Danladi, who confirmed the incident, said he was on his way to the scene of the incident and promised to give details later.