Islamic school bombed in Sapele •10 pupils injured

 FEARS that members of the Boko Haram sect might have finally infiltrated the Niger Delta region heightened on Tuesday night,
following a bomb explosion that rocked an Islamic school in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, just as a couple and their daughter were reportedly killed by Fulani herdsmen in Plateau State.
The explosion was the second in Sapele in three weeks after a mosque, on Hausa Road, was rocked by an early morning bomb blast.
Tuesday’s blast injured 10 Muslim pupils, including a woman who are, at the moment, receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Sapele, Delta State University Hospital, Oghara and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Edo State.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that yet-to-be-identified occupants of a Toyota Camry car threw a bomb at a store being used for Islamic lesson by about 50 pupils at about 8.40 p.m., which exploded and injured the victims.
It was learnt the explosion was massive and threw some of the pupils in different directions and that the assailants moved a distance to ensure that they indeed hit their target before escaping from the scene.
The explosion, according to an eyewitness, occurred three hours after the commencement of the day’s lessons and one and a half hours before closing time at the school on King Street, off Urhobo road, Sapele.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the victims were identified as Asisat Hassan; Saidat Muhammed; Xlare Jemilat, all females, Asibi Lawal (the woman).
Chief Medical Director of the Sapele General Hospital, Dr Omo Aghoja, confirmed that three of the bomb victims were receiving treatment in the hospital.
A senior security officer at the scene confirmed that the explosion was dynamite but the Divisional Police Officer of Sapele, Mr Emmanuel Ighodalo, declined to comment.

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