Four Quranic School Pupils and two adults were killed by an explosion in Gubio local government area of Borno State.
The chairman of Gubio LG, Alhaji Mali Gubio, said the incident happened in an uncompleted building around 11 am, on Saturday.
“All the people involved are dead, so we cannot ascertain what exactly happened, but it was an IED explosion in a house where scrap metals were kept.”
“The corpses of four Almajiri pupils were recovered and adults, but we cannot identify the corpses of the two adults recovered at the scene, and no one has come to claim them,” he said
He said Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, has banned metal scavenging in the state to prevent vandalisation of government facilities in deserted communities.
He said many people believed that metal scavengers unknowingly collected and stored the active IED along with other metals in the building close to the Quranic school (Tsangaya). .
