At least 10 people were feared dead
on Wednesday after an suspected 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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