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Nigeria college attacked by gunmen | Nigeria college attacked by gunmen |
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Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at a teacher training college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. | Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at a teacher training college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. |
Students were seen fleeing from the city's Federal College of Education. | Students were seen fleeing from the city's Federal College of Education. |
One student told the BBC by phone that he had seen 17 dead bodies at the scene. | |
It is not clear who was responsible, although suspicion will fall on militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009. | |
In July the city suffered a spate of five attacks in four days, one of which also targeted a college and killed six people. | |
In May 2013, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency in the northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, vowing to crush the insurgency. | |
However the militants have stepped up attacks, killing more than 2,000 civilians this year, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch. |