A suicide bomber has killed 47 children and injured 79 others during a school assembly Monday in north east Nigeria, reports Agence France Presse.
Emmanuel Ojukwu, a police spokesman told AFP, “There was an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber. We have 47 dead and 79 injured.”
He said that attack in Potiskum in Yobe state was probably carried out by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
[AFP]
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