How 7-year-old bomber killed professor, others in university explosion

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January 16, 2017 1:42 PM

The young boy is said to have detonated his bomb at the Senior Staff Quarters of the university killing a professor and four others.

Officials remove dead bodies from a bomb blast scene in Maiduguri, Borno State.

One of the suicide bombers who carried out an attack on the University of Maiduguri on Monday, January 16, was a seven-year-old boy, reports say.

The young boy is said to have detonated his bomb at the Senior Staff Quarters of the university killing a professor and four others.

15 other people were said to have been injured after the explosions which occurred at Gates 1 and 5 of the institution.

“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,” Commissioner of Police in Borno, Damian Chukwu told journalists.

“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 added.

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The late professor has been identified as the Director of Veterinary Medicine of the University, Aliyu Usman Mani.

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