Gunmen believed to be Islamists from Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgent group today stormed a boarding school and killed 30 students and 12 teachers.
A credible military source in Nigeria who confirmed the attack to us said the incident occurred at the Government Secondary School in the town of Mamudo at about 2am. The militants seem to have regrouped in a commando style to carry out the butchery, some of the victims reportedly burned alive despite soldiers all over the place enforcing the military emergency.
In addition to the dead, many others incurred serious injuries and were rushed to hospitals in Damaturu, the state capital.
Troops have now been deployed to the area, but the incident calls to question the strategy being employed by the military in their implementation of the state of emergency, and how much success they have actually achieved so far.
“We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School (in) Mamudo last night. Some of them had gunshot wounds while many of them had burns and ruptured tissues,” Haliru Aliyu of the Potiskum General Hospital told AFP