Potiskum School Assembly Blast: Death Toll Rises To 47

A suicide bomb attack killed 47 students and injured 79 others on
Monday as they gathered for morning assembly at their school in
northeast Nigeria, a massacre likely carried out by Boko Haram, police
told AFP.

"There was an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber," national
police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said, referring to the attack at the
Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum
in Yobe state.

"We have 47 dead and 79 injured," he added, saying that the Islamist
extremists were believed to be responsible.
--Vanguard