Boko Haram suspected in Nigerian school attack

November 10, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
World

At least 47 people were killed by a suicide bombing outside a Nigerian school Monday. A further 79 people were wounded in the blast at a government boarding school in Potiskum. The militant group Boko Haram is suspected, reports CNN. The group killed 40 students in February, and 42 students last year in similar attacks. The group is also connected to the kidnapping of more than 200 young girls from a school in April. A ceasefire reached in October led to Boko Haram agreeing to return the girls. Since then, however, the group has reported that the girls willingly converted to Islam and have been married off. The group wants to create an Islamic state.