At least 15 dead after attack on Nigerian teacher training college
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An attack on a teacher-training college in Nigeria killed at least 15 people and injured another 34.
Students and staff fled as explosions and gunshots were heard at the Federal College of Education in the city of Kano yesterday.
Police said two attackers died 鶹APP one shot dead and the other when he detonated a suicide vest. No one has claimed responsibility but suspicion has fallen on Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group that kidnapped the Chibok schoolgirls and has destroyed hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria.
The attack happened at 2pm as many students were attending lectures.
Lecturer Sanusi Umar said: 鶹APPWe heard several shots from the gate area and after a few minutes we heard an explosion at the [lecture] theatre.
鶹APPThe attackers were wearing suits and were running and shooting everywhere.鶹APP
State police commissioner Aderenle Shinaba said: 鶹APPThere was another insurgent who was carrying an AK47 rifle and explosives. One of the security operatives was able to shoot at him and the explosives went off and killed him.鶹APP
. It quoted witness Murtala Ibrahim as saying: 鶹APPI was inside the lecture theatre when I heard a loud sound and sporadic gunshots before some of us escaped into nearby houses adjacent to the college.
鶹APPWe first heard the bomb explosion before the gunmen started shooting people indiscriminately in the school.鶹APP
In a statement, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said called it a 鶹APPdastardly attack鶹APP. He added that 鶹APPthe government continues to do all within its powers to further enhance the ability of 鶹APP security agencies to prosecute the war against terrorism to a successful conclusion and provide greater security across the country.鶹APP
An attack by a female suicide bomber on another college in Kano killed six people in July.
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict resulted in the death, injury or abduction of at least 414 students, teachers or other civilians on school premises between January 2012 and July 2014.
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