A gunman opened fire on Friday outside a school in northeast Nigeria‘s city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram, a police officer and witnesses said.
“We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital
from the scene of the shooting attack,” said the officer, who requested
anonymity.
Multiple students at the College of Administrative and Business
Studies in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives
strapped to his body blew himself up when he ran out of ammunition, but
the blast caused no other casualties.
Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and
colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before
entering the campus.
The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened, witnesses said.
“We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the
direction of the gates and we instantly realised we were under attack
which made us to rush out of the class,” student Tijjani Musa said.
According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to
pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began
shooting.
“He kept firing sporadic shots,” but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar.
“When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his
robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd,” Umar told AFP.
However, residents say three students were killed.
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