The commissioner of police Kano state,Adelere Shinaba said the gunmen, whom he described as "insurgents", ran onto the grounds of the Federal College of Education after exchanging fire with police outside. He told AFP:
"They were obviously suicide bombers. One of our officers shot at one of the gunmen and the explosives on him went off, killing him on the spot. Another gunman was also killed. Thirteen people were killed by the gunmen and 34 others have been taken to hospital with injuries."
A previous bombing on June 23 killed at least eight when it went off in the grounds of the city's School of Hygiene.
On July 27, another female bomber blew herself up outside a university in Kano after police prevented her from getting inside the campus.
A female suicide bomber had also on July 30th killed six people after detonating her explosives at a noticeboard on the campus of the Kano Polytechnic College while students were crowded around it.
The bombings were linked to Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgent group opposed to so-called "Western education" that has been waging a deadly five-year insurgency in Nigeria's Muslim-majority
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