Breaking News Extremists kill 48 Youth at High School in Nigeria - Suicide Bomb Attack - Please PRAY
All Africa Report/ Daily Trust: By Hamza Idris, Maiduguri & Hamisu Kabir Matazu, Damaturu
Death toll from the blast at Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum in Yobe State this morning has risen to 48, witnesses and hospital sources said.
A teacher from the school had earlier told Daily Trust he counted 30 dead bodies. Seventy-nine were injured in the attack which targeted students of the school when they gathered for the morning assembly.
"About 15 students, whose bodies were disfigured but still bleeding at the scene of the explosion died on the way to the General Hospital, Potiskum, ," Ahmed Yunus, a volunteer from Potiskum, who rushed to the scene of the explosion said.
"Some died shortly on arriving at the hospital," he said.
Kulu Mustapha, a woman that lives not far from the school said she saw some vehicles heading towards Federal Medical Centre in Azare, Bauchi State with some of the victims that sustained severe injuries.
"The suicide bomber disguised as a student because he wore the same uniform being used by students of the school. This gave him the ease to get much closer to the assembly ground where he carried out the nefarious act," she said.
"It was a gory scene because some of the innocent students have been decapitated by the explosion, what you only see is body parts and tattered uniforms," she said.
The Yobe state commissioner of Police Markus Danladi confirmed the incident to Daily Trust in a telephone chat. He said he was on his way to the scene of the blast. He could not confirm the number of casualties.
A medical personnel at the Potiskum General Hospital said there was shortage of blood at the hospital which is needed to save the lives of the injured.
"We hope well-meaning people would come to assist with blood. Some of the victims lost a lot of blood and may die if nothing urgent is done," he said.
Meanwhile, angry youth in Potiskum have reportedly denied soldiers and other security operatives from getting access to the school where the bomb occurred.
"We chased them (security operatives) away because the worst has happened and we feel they would not do anything to reverse the sad incident. The students have died and therefore we don't want them at the scene," one of the protesters said.
Sources said the angry mob pelted the security operatives with stones, chanting, "Bama so, Bama so" meaning "We don't want you."
Only last week, a suicide bomber killed more than 20 members of the Shiite sect in Potiskum during their religious procession, injuring many more.
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