Death toll in Nigerian college attack rises to 40

[oberliner]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The death toll in an attack by gunmen on a college in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday has risen to 40, a Reuters witness said, in a region where Islamist militants have targeted schools and universities.

Gunmen stormed the College of Agriculture in Yobe state and shot students as they slept in the early hours of Sunday, state police commissioner Sanusi Rufai said.

A Reuters witness counted 40 bodies at the main hospital in Yobe's state capital Damaturu, mostly young men believed to be college students.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/29/us-nigeria-violence-idUSBRE98S06120130929

[dhol82]

1. wow

thought the islamists were only opposed to females getting an education?

guess they now find all education to be haram.

[Posteritatis]

7. Boko Haram is opposed to *all* western knowledge. (nt)

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. Boko Harem translates to "Western Education is Sin." Welcome to the new civil war style in Africa.

[jamzrockz]

8. Not really

These is what happens when you let Saudi Arabia build Islamic schools in your country, they infect population with Wahhabi Islam. I am the biggest pacifist there is in this world but I will support a regime change operation in that country cos when they are not oppressing the people in their own country, they are exporting radicalism around the world.

That country needs to be able to resist their blood money

[heaven05]

3. violence and madness all because why?

religion. geez And religion in this country has done nothing for me BUT let me know how deeply ingrained RACISM, HATE, IGNORANCE and backwardness is in our so called democratic society.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Another civil war in Nigeria

WHen I was a child, the word "Biafra" conjured up images of bloated, famished children and untold suffering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

[tabasco]

5. It would be a goddamned shame if a U.S. drone

took out a squad of islamic militants like this.

Oh, the screeching we would hear on DU.

[daleo]

6. Really nuts

You would think agriculture would be neutral ground, in religious terms. Mind you, religions often have strange food and planting taboos, so who knows.