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00:00 In the Gubio area of northeastern Nigeria, scattered clothing and footwear marked the
00:06 place where seven children were killed by an improvised explosive device.
00:13 Six of the children were students at an Islamic school, aged between seven and eleven, and
00:18 had mistaken the IED for scrap metal, village head Modu Jiware said on Monday.
00:23 "They saw some scrap metal inside a bush and took it to their school.
00:28 Later a metal scavenger came with his wheelbarrow to buy it off them.
00:32 During the process of compacting the metal, the IED exploded.
00:36 The children didn't know.
00:37 Their teacher wasn't even in town when the incident happened.
00:40 He had travelled.
00:41 He came back to discover what happened.
00:43 Their bodies scattered all over."
00:46 Jiware said the child buying the metal when the explosion took place on Saturday was 15.
00:53 Students at the Islamic school often sell scrap to local communities.
00:57 It's located in Borno State, heartland of a long-running jihadist insurgency.
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