Correspondent- Explosion started around 8 a.m and sproadic gunshots could be heard for about 30 minutes. Shortly aftewards two bombs went off around two theatres situated in between the faculties of medicine and science in the Bayero University.
These theatres which are normally used for Sunday service by Christian students is believed to have been attacked by no fewer than seven gunmen.
Members of the Joint Task Force overseeing security in the city didn’t arrive until 20 minutes after the gunmen had left.
A clergy,conducting service in one of the theatres said what scarred him most was the gunshots that followed the bombing.
An eye witness has this to say “I wasn’t there but I know of the first place they went to in BUK! There is a Federal Government-assisted IT infrastructure site inside BUK old site that they first went to. They told the legionnaires guarding that they were there to bomb the building because it belonged to the Federal Government.”
“After much begging and quoting of the Quran by the aged legionnaires, Boko Haram left and about 20 minutes later, they started bombing the chaplain and shootings broke out.
The JTF were later seen ferrying away corpses and the wounded inin two pick-up vans.
Security measures have seen the cordoning off the main gate to old site. Uncomfirmed reports say two professors are among the casualties