Boko Haram were suspected of killing nearly 50
pupils Monday in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, in one of the worst
attacks against schools teaching a so-called Western curriculum.
The explosion at the all-boys school in Potiskum is
the latest in a series of atrocities against schoolchildren in the state of
Yobe, and the second suicide attack in the town in eight days.
The massacre came just a day after the release of a
new Boko Haram video in which the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, again
rejected Nigerian government claims of a ceasefire and peace talks.
Students at the Government Comprehensive Senior
Science Secondary School in Potiskum were waiting to hear the principal’s daily
address when the explosion happened at 7:50 am (0650 GMT).
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