suicide bombing rocked a teacher training college in northwest Nigeria
as students were sitting exams, police and a student said.
The blast happened at the Federal College of Education in the town of
Kontagora, Niger state, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the state
capital, Minna.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the explosion
happened just two days after nearly 50 students were killed in a
suspected Boko Haram suicide bomb attack at a school in the
northeastern state of Yobe.
That massacre was one of the worst in the five-year insurgency against
a school teaching a secular curriculum, to which the Islamists are
opposed.
Niger State police spokesman Ibrahim Gambari confirmed the blast by
telephone from Minna, saying commanders were awaiting further details
from officers on the ground.
"We have dispatched our teams from here," he told AFP.
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