Machete-wielding man hacks three primary school pupils to death in Borno

Three children were killed and an teacher was harmed when a man equipped with a machete raged a primary school in upper east Nigeria on Thursday.

The assault occurred at around 9:30 am amid break time at the Jafi Primary School in Kwaya Kusar, in the southwest of Borno state.

Kasimu Ibrahim, who lives close to the school, said the assailant — depicted as being in his 30s and with a slick facial hair — made a beeline for the nursery segment of the school.

"He entered a class and started assaulting pupils. He hacked two young children to death, age around five and seven," he said

A third casualty — an eight-year-old young child died while in transit to a clinic in neighboring Gombe state, he included.

The teacher figured out how to raise the caution after she was struck in the hands
and the assailant was overwhelmed.

Habibu Suleiman, who likewise lives close-by and like Ibrahim hurried to the scene when the caution was raised, gave a comparable record.

Both said police arrested the aggressor and afterward to a healing facility, where he was under equipped protect.

"Schools in the town have all shut, both open and private," said Suleiman.

Kwaya Kusar is somewhere in the range of 230 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, which has been at the epicenter of Boko Haram's Islamist insurrection.

Ibrahim and Suleiman both faulted the jihadists yet while Boko Haram has focused on schools some time recently, Thursday's occurrence did not fit an example of past assaults.

Assaults on schools in the eight-year strife have normally included expansive gatherings of contenders furnished with programmed weapons and explosives.

Primary schools have been the principle targets. In February 2014, outfitted activists slaughtered no less than 43 understudies as they dozed at a young men's live-in school in Buni Yadi, Yobe state.

Boko Haram's name converts into English from the Hausa generally talked crosswise over northern Nigeria to "Western training is corrupt".

The Jafi Primary School is a state-run, secular school.

There was no prompt remark from state police.