morning attacked a boarding school in Borno State,
killing 29 students and one teacher (Mohamed
Musa – A English Teacher). According to reports
some of the pupils were burned alive while other
were shot. This is the latest school attack blamed
on a radical terror group in a series of attacks on
schools that started as far back as last year.
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to
identify the charred and gunshot victims.
Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of
his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he
apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old
shot in the chest.
"That's it, I'm taking my other boys out of school,"
he told The Associated Press as he wept over the
two corpses. He said he had three younger children
in a nearby school. It's not safe," he said. "The
gunmen are attacking schools and there is no
protection for students despite all the soldiers."
Survivors at the Potiskum General Hospital and its
mortuary said gunmen attacked Government
Secondary School in Mamudo village, 5 kilometers
(3 miles) from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m.
Saturday. The gunmen are believed to be from the
Boko Haram sect whose name means "Western
education is sacrilege."
"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When
I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me,"
said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.
He put his arm up and a gunshot blew off all four
fingers on his right hand. He also mentioned that
the attackers came with jerry cans of fuel that was
used to set the school administrative block on fire.
"They burned the children alive," he said, the
horror showing in his wide eyes.
Source: jaguda
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