The
death toll at the College of
Agriculure, Gujba ,Yobe State has risen to 78. At least 50 of them were
students who were attacked in the early hours of yesterday morning as
they slept in their hostel. Some were shot, others were butchered with
swords and knives. The gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram sect members later moved to houses around the hostel, killing residents they find. Then they blocked the Damaturu-Maiduguri
road and killed travellers. So far, 78 bodies have been counted, with many more people still unaccounted for. A student of the college who survived the massacre explained what happened...
"They started gathering students into
groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto
the next group and killed them. It was so terrible. They came with
guns around 1a.m. and went directly to the male hostel and
opened fire on them. The college is in the bush, so the other students
were running around helplessly as guns went off and some of them were shot
down.”
The gunmen
stormed the hostels in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and
on motorcycles, and were dressed in military camouflage. They attacked 4
male hostels but avoided the only hostel reserved for girls.
Swords
and knives were used to kill at least 30 male students. Some corpses
that were found were
without heads while others had heads hanging to the bodies. Wailing
parents and relatives were at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital
mortuary in Damaturu this morning to identify their loved ones. This
can't continue. This government has to do something.
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