Federal College of Education, Kano bomb blast leaves 13 dead, 34 injured

At least 13 people were killed and 34 others wounded police fought a battle with suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers in Kano, northern Nigeria, the state's police chief said on Wednesday.

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Kano State police commissioner Adelere Shinaba said the gunmen, whom he described as "insurgents", ran onto the grounds of the Federal College of Education after exchanging fire with police outside. He told AFP:

"They were obviously suicide bombers. One of our officers shot at one of the gunmen
and the explosives on him went off, killing him on the spot. Another gunman was also killed. Thirteen people were killed by the gunmen and 34 others have been taken to hospital with injuries."

You recall that on July 30, a female suicide bomber killed six people after detonating her explosives at a noticeboard on the campus of the Kano Polytechnic College while students were crowded around it. On July 27, another female bomber blew herself up outside a university in Kano after police prevented her from getting inside the campus. A previous bombing on June 23 killed at least eight when it went off in the grounds of the city's School of Hygiene.

The bombings were linked to Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgent group opposed to so-called "Western education" that has been waging a deadly five-year insurgency in Nigeria's Muslim-majority north.

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