#News: Suicide Bomber Kills 47 Children at Nigeria School Assembly

[Time]

A suicide bomber has killed 47 children and injured 79 others during a school assembly Monday in north east Nigeria, reports Agence France Presse.

Emmanuel Ojukwu, a police spokesman told AFP, "There was an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber. We have 47 dead and 79 injured."

He said that attack in Potiskum in Yobe state was probably carried out by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

[AFP]