In Kano, gunmen stormed a school, shooting indiscriminately. Students ran out of their classrooms, screaming. Amid the pandemonium, a suicide bomber stormed a classroom and set off an explosion.
By the time the smoke cleared a few minutes later, 15 students lay dead; 34 were injured at the Federal College of Education, Kano.
There were two suicide bombers. One entered the classroom at the new campus and set himself ablaze, killing the students.
The other suicide bomber went within the school’s premises and set himself ablaze, but nobody was killed or injured as the students had already run for their lives.
Police Commissioner Aderenle Shinaba, who was at the scene of the incident, confirmed that 15 students were killed and 34 were seriously injured.
According to him at about 1:30pm some unidentified people climbed the fence of the Federal College of Education, Kano and jumped into the premises, shooting sporadically to scare the students.
Eventually, he said, one of the two suicide bombers entered one of the classrooms and set himself ablaze, killing 15 of the students and injuring 34 of them.
Shinaba said the other suicide bomber went to an open space where he set himself ablaze, but most of the students had run for their lives.
The suicide bomber died. Shinaba said two AK 47 rifles were recovered from the scene.
The college has been cordoned off by security men and the school has been shut down.
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