An early morning bomb blast yesterday snuffed life out no fewer than 47 secondary school students at Government Technical School, Potiskum, Yobe. About 79 persons were injured and are receiving treatment according to official counts.
Below we give you a timeline of Boko Haram’s orchestrated attacks on secondary school, since July, 2013 . An addidition of students that died within that period shows 234 students, lots of injured and kidnapped students
June 17 2013: Extremists kill nine students as they took an exam in Maiduguri.
July 6 2013: Gunmen attack a secondary school in Mamudo, near Potiskum, killing 42 people, many of whom are students.
September 29 2013: Gunmen open fire on sleeping students in a dormitory in Gujba, in Yobe state, killing 40.
February 25 2014: Suspected Islamists kill 43 in attack on sleeping secondary school students in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state.
February 26-27 2014: 25 people killed during an attack against a Christian school in Shuwa, in Adamawa state.
April 14 2014: 276 high school students, all girls, are kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State.
June 23 2014: Eight people die and 12 are wounded when a bomb explodes at a public health school in Kano.
September 17 2014: 13 people die, 34 wounded in a suicide attack at the campus of the federal institute of higher education in Kano.
November 10 2014: A suicide attack kills at least 47 people and wounds some 79 students at a boys school in Potiskum.