Breaking News: Bomb Blasts Hit Yobe, Many Students Feared Dead

Latest news emanating from Yobe State, northern Nigeria, indicates that a bomb explosion happened early this morning inside the All Boys Government Technical Secondary School in Potiskum. According to reports, many people are feared to have lost their lives in the attack and others sustained injuries as witnesses of the explosion stated that it occurred when students of the affected school gathered for the routine morning assembly.
 
It was gathered that the assembly holds at 8am, Monday to Friday.
Another source informed that the attack was carried out by a student suicide bomber.
Speaking with AFP reporter, a teacher from the school said: “The students had gathered for the morning assembly when something exploded in their midst with a thunderous sound at exactly 7:50 am (0650 GMT).

“The explosion has affected many students but I can’t say how many because we are now evacuating the victims to the hospital which is just 100 metres (yards) away.”
A medic at the Potiskum General Hospital where the victims were taken said that scores of students had been admitted.

"We are still receiving casualties from the school which is a stone’s throw from here,” the medic said.
“Our priority now is to save the injured, so we have not started a headcount of the victims.”
A local resident, Adamu Alkassim, said there was confusion in and around the school but the scene was a mass of abandoned footwear and blood.

Confirming the attack to Premium Times, the spokesperson of the Yobe State Command of the Nigeria Police, Nansak Chegwam, declined to comment on the incident, saying the military is in charge of operations at the scene of the incident.

Though no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, it is believed it was carried attack ny the Islamist group Boko Haram.

This is because the terrorists sect has severally claimed responsibility for such attacks in the area.
In February, gunmen killed at least 40 students when they opened fire on students and threw explosives into the dormitory of a government boarding school in Buni Yadi, also in Yobe state.
In July last year 42 students were killed when Boko Haram gunmen attacked dormitories with guns and explosives in a government boarding school in the village of Mamudo, near Potiskum.

Potiskum, the commercial hub of Yobe state, has been repeatedly targeted by deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram.

Yobe is one of three northeastern states that has been under a state of emergency since May last year to try to quell the bloody insurgency.

But violence has continued unabated and Boko Haram has seized at least two dozen towns and villages in recent months, raising fears of the government’s ability to control the region.
It would be recalled that about 30 people were killed and 89 others injured when a bomb went off as Shia Muslims were celebrating the Day of Ashura in Potiskum, Yobe State, on November 3, 2014.


The suicide bomb attack which was reportedly targeted at the members of the Islamic Brotherhood of Nigeria left many innocent women and children dead.