Boko Haram Attacks High School In Yobe, 43 dead, score of girls abducted
Suspected members of Boko Haram killed 43 people on Tuesday when they attacked secondary school students in Yobe during sleeping hours.
The attack occurred at about 2am at the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi and this brings to mind a similar attack last September in which 40 died.
The attackers reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number of students to death, targeting only male students and sparing female students. Some of The corpses were taken to the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital, Damaturu.
“So far, 43 bodies have been brought (from the college) and are lying at the morgue,” said a source at the hospital.
A resident of Damaturu also cofirmed that four ambulances carrying dead bodies drove past his shop, which falls on the road from Buni Yadi. He said the ambulances had tree branches on them which is a sign used in the area to signify a corpse is in a vehicle.
The hospital source also revealed that people whose relatives were studying at the college had surrounded the morgue and were desperately seeking information about those killed, forcing the military to take control of the building to restore calm.
The state’s police chief, Sanusi Rufai, who confirmed the attack and had given an earlier death toll of 29, was headed to Buni Yadi, roughly 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Damaturu, with Governor Ibrahim Geidam to assess the damage.
Sources told NigerianEcho that death toll has risen to 43 and more than 20 girls were abducted.
