An explosive device was found on Tuesday in lecture hall at a
university in northern city just before students arrived for an
examination, an official said.
The device planted in the lecture theatre at the Federal College of
Education (FCE) in Kano was discovered by a campus security guard and
dismantled before causing any damage.
In April, attackers suspected of belonging the radical Boko Haram
Islamist group killed roughly 20 people at the nearby Bayero University,
Kano.
They set off bombs at a Sunday morning campus church service, then opened fire as worshippers tried to flee.
“This morning, something suspected to be an improvised explosive
device has been successfully detected and detonated by the anti-bomb
squad of the Nigeria police in the college,” said FCE spokesman Auwalu
Mudi Yakasai in a statement.
He added that the exams would continue uninterrupted.
It was not immediately clear who planted the device, but Boko Haram,
responsible for scores of attacks across northern and central Nigeria in
recent months, has hit Kano repeatedly in the past.
The name Boko Haram, a combination of Hausa and Arabic, means “Western education is forbidden.”
Kano, Nigeria’s second most populous city, was the site of the
group’s deadliest attack yet on January 20 when at least 185 people were
killed in coordinated gun and bomb attacks.
The group has claimed the deaths of more than 1,000 people since
mid-2009, and three of its presumed top leaders have been designated as
global terrorists by the United States.
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