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Updated : Nov 11, 2014, 08:26 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday night condemned the suicide bomber attack in a school in Nigeria which left 48 students dead, terming it as a cowardly act.
"The attack in Nigeria is cowardly and utterly condemnable," Modi tweeted.
"Condolences to the kin of the deceased. My prayers (are) with the injured," he said.
The attack in Nigeria is cowardly & utterly condemnable. Condolences to the kin of the deceased. My prayers with the injured.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 10, 2014
A suicide bomber, disguised in a school uniform, detonated explosives at a high school assembly in northeast Nigeria.
According to a morgue worker, 48 students have been kilwled in the attack.