A devastating suicide bomb attack at a high-school assembly in Nigeria has killed 48, with 80 others wounded. Some 2,000 students had gathered for a weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College in Potiskum, capital of the northern Yobe state, on Monday.
The bomber was thought to have been wearing a school uniform, and hid the explosives in a backpack . Victims are being treated at Potiskum General Hospital. All are said to be between 11 and 20. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram is thought to have carried out the attack. The group has been responsible for a string of attacks in Nigeria, including the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls earlier this year.