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1st LD: At least 50 injured as explosions, gunfire rock business school in NE Nigeria: witnesses

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 50 people, mostly students, were injured as gunfire and two explosions rock Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe on Friday, witnesses and hospital sources told Xinhua.

The attack started with a suicide bomb, in which the bomber blew himself up prematurely in the car park of the College of Administrative and Business Studies in Potiskum, the largest city in the restive Yobe State, a witness said.

A second explosion in the college dormitory harmed no one, as the students had all gone out to their classrooms, a local security officer who rushed to the scene said in the local Hausa language.

This was followed by a gunfire aiming at the student on the main campus, said a security officer who insisted anonymity. Endi