UPDATE ON BOMB BLAST AT KANO STATE COLLEGE OF ISLAMIC STUDIES.

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a college in northern Nigeria's biggest city of Kano, killing six people and critically wounding another six in the fourth such attack by a woman in Kano in less than a week, a security source said. The bomber targeted youths who were looking at a notice board for national youth service in Kano Polytechnic, the source told Reuters news agency on Wednesday. Government spokesman Mike Omeri also confirmed the attack in a statement to the AFP news agency. "At about 2.30 pm (1.30pm GMT), another female suicide bomber exploded an improvised explosive device at the Kano State polytechnic.