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Nigerian bomb blast kills at least eight Nigerian bomb blast kills at least eight
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Police say that an explosion at a medical school in Nigeria's northern city of Kano has killed at least eight people and wounded 12 more. At least eight people were killed and 20 wounded by an explosion at a college campus in the heart of the northern Nigerian city of Kano during school hours on Monday, police said.
The police commissioner for the state of Kano, Aderenle Shinaba, said one suspect was detained after the blast on Monday and that his vehicle had been seized for investigation. It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion. Bombings and attacks now happen almost daily in Nigeria's north, where militant group Boko Haram is trying to carve out an Islamist state.
The commissoner said that Boko Haram Islamic extremists were suspected. The blast at Kano State School of Hygiene tore through an area just inside the main gate, where students often gather at food kiosks between classes.
One student said people ran out of the school of hygiene yelling "get out! It's a bomb". Police took one suspect in for questioning, the state police commissioner, Adenrele Shinaba, told reporters. The blast was so severe that several cars parked nearby were badly damaged, he said.
It was the third bomb blast in four months in Nigeria's second largest city. Witnesses said the blast caused workers to flee the city centre of Kano, the north's largest city.
Boko Haram did not immediately claim responsibility but the school matches two of its targets, of schools and western medicine. Boko Haram gained global attention in April when it abducted more than 200 girls from a rural school in north-east Nigeria.
The group has attracted international condemnation since April when it kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, from the town of Chibok, in Borno state, most of whom remain captive. Kano was hit by unrest this month when hundreds of youths took to the streets to protest against a decision to appoint Nigeria's former central bank governor as the country's second-highest Islamic authority.
Nigeria's government has not succeeded in curbing the uprising. Last month a suicide car bomb in the city killed five people on a street lined with popular bars and restaurants, in an area mostly inhabited by southern Christians.
Amnesty International estimates that more than 1,500 people were killed in north-east Nigeria in the first three months of this year.