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According to the news reaching Arise News247, a suicide bomber has detonated his bomb at the Senior Staff Quarters Mosque of the University of Maiduguri, killing not fewer than four persons including the Director of Veterinary of the University, Prof. Aliyu Usman Mani; early today, Monday 16th January, 2017.
The unfortunate tragedy has been confirmed by the Chairman State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Satomi and the Commissioner of Police(CP), Mr. Damian Chukwu.
Alhaji Satomi disclosed to newsmen that apart from those killed about “15 persons, who sustained various degrees of injuries were rushed to hospital,”
While the CP, Mr Chukwu, affirmed that:
“At about 5:45 a.m. a mobile police officer who is on duty sighted a suicide bomber who was trying to scale the fence at Gate Five of the university.
“Suspicious of his movement, the mobile police officer instantly gunned him down and his bomb exploded and killed him instantly.
“The second suicide bomber, a seven year-old detonated the second explosive at the senior staff quarters mosque in the university where a professor, and four persons were killed and 15 persons sustained various degrees of injuries and were rushed to the hospital,” he concluded.
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