A suspected female suicide bomber has killed herself in a failed attempt on students of Federal College of Education, Kontagora in Niger State.
Details of the incident, which occured on Wednesday afternoon are still sketchy, but a student of the college, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone that the female suicide bomber was instantly killed while another student sustained injury.
The Police spokesman in the state, ASP Ibrahim Gambari, confirmed the incident but said they were yet to get full details of the incident.
“We shall get to you when we get full details”, he told NAN.
A witness said however that at least one person was killed. That could not be confirmed.
“She detonated her bomb vest between the auditorium and the college library. She might have been on her way to the library,” Aisha Kontagora, who lives in Kontangora revealed.
The suicide bombing at the school in Kontagora came barely 48 hours after a similar attack in Potiskum that killed 49 students.
Until now, Niger State had enjoyed relative peace since the 2012 bombing attacks on churches in Madallah and Suleja.
It would be recalled that just two days ago, a suicide bomber pretending to be a student of Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum detonated a bomb during the early morning assembly of the school, killing himself and about 35 students, with over 80 others injured.