Nigerian Islamists kill 59 pupils in boarding school attack

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Nigerian Islamists kill 59 pupils in boarding school attack

BY JOE HEMBA
DAMATURU, Nigeria Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:46pm EST

(Reuters) - Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram shot or burned to death 59 pupils in a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight, a hospital official and security forces said on Tuesday.

"Some of the students' bodies were burned to ashes," Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said of the attack on the Federal Government college of Buni Yadi, a secondary school in Yobe state, near the state's capital city of Damaturu.

Bala Ajiya, an official at the Specialist Hospital Damaturu, told Reuters by phone the death toll had risen to 59.

"Fresh bodies have been brought in. More bodies were discovered in the bush after the students who had escaped with bullet wounds died from their injuries," he said.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Really not much point in being a militant

If you can't murder unarmed children.