Explosive kills six students from Nigerian Islamic school

At least six schoolchildren were killed in northeast Nigeria by an improvised explosive device which they had mistaken for scrap metal, police and a local official said on Sunday. The children, aged between 13 and 15, picked up the explosive device along with some scrap metal and stored it in an uncompleted building at an Islamic school in the Gubio area of Borno state, heartland of a long-running Islamist insurgency. A spokesperson for the Gubio local government said the device had detonated and killed the six as they sought to sell it as scrap metal on Saturday.