Nigeria attack: Students shot dead as they slept

[kiva]

Suspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students. The students were shot dead as they slept in their dormitory at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state.

North-eastern Nigeria is under a state of emergency amid an Islamist insurgency by the Boko Haram group. Boko Haram is fighting to overthrow Nigeria's government to create an Islamic state, and has launched a number of attacks on schools.

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College provost Molima Idi Mato, speaking to Associated Press, also said the number of dead could be as high as 50, adding that security forces were still recovering the bodies and that about 1,000 students had fled the campus.

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In June, Boko Haram carried out two attacks on schools in the region.

At least nine children were killed in a school on the outskirts of Maiduguri, while 13 students and teachers were killed in a school in Damaturu.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24322683

[etherealtruth]

1. a world gone mad

[polly7]

2. Just horrible. :( nt.

[Nevernose]

3. The biggest threat to religious fundamentalists

Is an educated populace. It's not bombs or drones or politics or any of that stuff: the biggest threat is little girls knowing how to read and young men asking questions.

[polly7]

4. Absolutely true. nt.