A female suicide bomber has blown herself up at a college
in north-central Nigeria, witnesses say.
The bomb exploded as the woman was about to enter a hall packed with students at a college in Kontagora town, the witnesses added.
Casualties numbers are unclear, but lecturer Andrew Randa
told the BBC he had seen four bodies - some of them decapitated.
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram is waging an
insurgency in Nigeria.
The group has declared a caliphate, or Islamic state, in
areas it controls in north-east Nigeria.
It has carried out a spate of bombings and assassinations
in north-east and north-central Nigeria since launching its insurgency in 2009.
Mr Randa said he heard a deafening blast and then there
was pandemonium as people ran away from the scene.
Soldiers rushed to the college and sealed off the area,
he said. Three of the four bodies he had seen were of women, Mr
Randa added. Other witnesses said the bomber died in the blast, and
there were many casualties.
At least seven people were wounded and rushed to
hospital, they told the BBC Hausa service.
There have been several bombings in Nigeria over the last
two weeks - the worst of which was a suicide attack on a school in Yobe State
on Monday, killing 46 teenage boys.
Boko Haram is opposed to Western education, and believes
that Muslim boys and girls should only receive an Islamic education
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