At least 48 students were killed and 79 were injured Monday morning when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a school in the town of Potiskum, in north eastern Nigeria. For now, no one confessed to the attack.
In Yobe state, whose capital is Potiskum, previously there have been attacks Sunni extremist organization Boko Haram.
The bomb exploded during a weekly roll call before the start of lessons, which according to witnesses attended by approx. 2 thousand. the students.
In place of the attack went to the soldiers, but were driven away by the angry crowd. People were throwing stones and military accused them that they can not stop the Islamist insurgency, which lasts for five years and as a result, and which killed thousands of people. 
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“People began to scream and run”
– Ok. h. 7.30 waited for the speech of the Director. Suddenly we heard a deafening sound, I fell to the ground. People began to scream and run. I saw that I was covered in blood – reported 17-year-old Musa Ibrahim Yahaya. He went to the hospital, no head injuries.
Employee morgue said 48 corpses brought people, mostly young people aged from 11 to 20 years.
Witnesses report that the attacker probably hid a bomb in a school bag. A few months ago, the Nigerian army announced the discovery of the city of Kano, in the north of the country, the explosives factory, where bombs were sewn to the backpack.
Last week, in a suicide bomb attack in Potiskum more than 30 people were killed when a bomb Shiites broke out in the crowd passing by the market in the city center.
Another attack Boko Haram?
Yobe State is one of three states in the Northeast Nigeria, which since May 2013. The state of emergency. Introduced him to put an end to the insurgency of Boko Haram, which resulted in over five years killed more than 10,000 people.
Boko Haram is seen as the biggest threat to Nigeria – Africa’s largest economy and most important oil producer on the continent . The organization has an armed struggle for the transformation of Nigeria, or at least part of its territory in the Muslim religious state in which Sharia law be in force. Since the beginning of this year, the rebels have stepped up attacks significantly.
Boko Haram has previously attacked the school where the students taught to think fundamentalists are Western values. In February, gunmen opened fire and detonated a bomb in a boarding school in Buni Yadi, also in Yobe state, killing at least 40 young people.
Author: NSZ // RZW / kwoj / PAP
The attack on the school, 48 people dead. "I saw that I was covered in blood" – TVN 24
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