Sad at 53! Death Toll Rises To 78 In Yobe College Of Agriculure Student Attack

Still counting with many more people still
unaccounted for as the death toll rises to 78
in Yobe College of Agriculure. Early hours of
yesterday, students were attacked, 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.
They also blocked the Damaturu-Maiduguri
road and killed travellers.
Read below what a student of the college who
survived the massacre said…
“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 about the situation.