Gone are the days where Nigeria was called safe and peaceful place as we continually lose our brothers and sister to the disaster being created by ourselves,something must be done urgently! at least 23 dead in NE Nigeria school blast, rescue worker said at an
explosion that ripped through a school in northeast Nigeria on Monday, as
students gathered for morning assembly before classes began, a teacher and a
medic told AFP.
The blast happened at the Government
Comprehensive Senior
Science Secondary
School in Potiskum, Yobe state, as students
waited to hear the principal’s daily address.
“At the moment, we have 23 dead bodies in the hospital and 72 other students
injured in the blast,” a rescue worker said in an account supported by a
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps member
“The students had gathered for the morning assembly when something exploded
in their midst with a thunderous sound at exactly 7:50 am (0650 GMT),” said
one teacher, who asked not to be identified.
“The explosion has affected many students but I can’t say how many because
we are now evacuating the victims to the hospital which is just 100 metres
(yards) away,” the teacher added, sobbing.
A medic at the Potiskum
General Hospital
where the victims were taken said scores of students had been admitted.
“We are still receiving casualties from the school which is a stone’s throw
from here,” the medic said.
“Our priority now is to save the injured, so we have not started a headcount
of the victims.”
Source: Vanguard
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