Nigeria : Militants kill students in college attack

[Alexy]

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said of an ongoing northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.

As many as 50 students may have been killed in the assault that began at about 1 a.m. Sunday in rural Gujba, Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press.

"They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them," he said.

He said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies of students mostly aged between 18 and 22.

The Nigerian military has collected 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 40 kilometers (25) miles north, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

The extremists rode into the college in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles, some dressed in Nigerian military camouflage uniforms, a surviving student, Ibrahim Mohammed, told the AP. He said they appeared to know the layout of the college, attacking the four male hostels but avoiding the one hostel reserved for women.

"We ran into the bush, nobody is left in the school now," Mohammed said.

Almost all those killed were Muslims, as is the college's student body, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping the wounded at the hospital.

Wailing relatives gathered outside the hospital morgue, where rescue workers laid out bloody bodies in an orderly row on the lawn for family members to identify their loved ones.

One body had its fists clenched to the chest in a protective gesture. Another had hands clasped under the chin, as if in prayer. A third had arms raised in surrender.

Provost Idi Mato confirmed the school's other 1,000 enrolled students have fled the college.

He said there were no security forces stationed at the college despite government assurances that they would be deployed. The state commissioner for education, Mohammmed Lamin, called a news conference two weeks ago urging all schools to reopen and promising protection from soldiers and police.

Most schools in the area closed after militants on July 6 killed 29 pupils and a teacher, burning some alive in their hostels, at Mamudo outside Damaturu.

Northeastern Nigeria is under a military state of emergency to battle an Islamic uprising prosecuted by Boko Haram militants who have killed more than 1,700 people since 2010 in their quest to install an Islamic state, though half the country's 160 million citizens are Christian. Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden in the local Hausa language.

United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday described the group as one of the most vicious terrorist organizations in the world, speaking at a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at which both reaffirmed their commitment to fight terrorism.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau last week published a video to prove he is alive and prove false military claims that they might have killed him in an ongoing crackdown.

Government and security officials claim they are winning their war on terror in the northeast but Sunday's attack and others belie those assurances.

The Islamic extremists have killed at least 30 other civilians in the past week.

Twenty-seven people died in separate attacks Wednesday and Thursday night on two villages of Borno state near the northeast border with Cameroon, according to the chairman of the Gamboru-Ngala local government council, Modu-Gana Bukar Sheriiff.

The military spokesman did not respond to requests for information on those attacks, but a security official confirmed the death toll. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to journalists.

Also Thursday, police said suspected Islamic militants killed a pastor, his son and a village head and torched their Christian church in Dorawa, about 100 kilometers from Damaturu. They said the gunmen used explosives to set fire to the church and five homes.

Meanwhile, farmers and government officials are fleeing threats of imminent attacks from Boko Haram in the area of the Gwoza Hills, a mountainous area with caves that shelter the militants despite repeated aerial bombardments by the military.

A local government official said there had been a series of attacks in recent weeks and threats of more. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his life, said Gwoza town was deserted when he visited it briefly under heavy security escort on Thursday.

He said militants had chased medical officers from the government hospital in Gwoza, which had been treating some victims of attacks. And he said they had burned down three public schools in the area.

The official said the Gwoza local government has set up offices in Maiduguri, the state capital to the north.

More than 30,000 people have fled the terrorist attacks to neighboring Cameroon and Chad and the uprising combined with the military emergency has forced farmers from their fields and vendors from their markets.

The attacks come as Nigeria prepares to celebrate 52 years of independence from Britain on Tuesday and amid political jockeying in the run up to presidential elections next year with many northern Muslim politicians saying they do not want another term for Jonathan, who is from the predominantly Christian south.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nigeria- ... ege-attack

[Bizzare]

in b4 e-thugs demand condemnation from local islamic groups

[15devils]

Muslims killing muslims .....what a waste.
Dem to dotish

[pioneer]

religion of peace

[Gem_in_i]

Killing people in their sleep smh.

[pioneer]

So much bravery shown

[nemisis]

Killing people in their sleep smh.

cowards need to cover their bases dan

[silent_riot]

Senseless...

[Team Loco]

Such idiots

[shogun]

The members of said religion, need to find their own planet to go live in "peace" and leave us savages here to ourselves.

I was a pretty tolerant person, but if people can't see a spiraling problem here, then i don't know what to say.

[Bizzare]

ABA I'm looking for your thread to post a link of local Islamic groups condemning the attacks. where is your thread man? it seemed to have disappeared

[Gem_in_i]

I think I saw it locked earlier today. Maybe removed now.

[RASC]

Inb4 thread clean up and turned into "memorial and condolences only" thread.

[cinco]

Pew pew pew

[DFC]

Well people die everyday.

[pioneer]

Inb4 thread clean up and turned into "memorial and condolences only" thread.

I wonder if ABA found the newspaper article?

[mamoo_pagal]

Boko Haram became active in about 2003 and is concentrated mainly in the northern Nigerian states of Yobe, Kano, Bauchi, Borno and Kaduna.

The group, which in the Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria means "Western education is sinful", is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.

They consider all who do not follow its strict ideology as infidels, whether they are Christian or Muslim, and they demand the adoption of Sharia law in all of Nigeria.

Boko Haram has waged guerrilla war on the state and attacks have focussed on soft targets including children, students, teachers and other civilians.

Founding leader Mohammed Yusuf was shot dead in police detention after being arrested in 2009. He was succeeded by Abubakar Shekau, who the military claims was killed in a fire fight in July or August this year.

An undated video released in September purports to show Shekau, indicating he may still be alive.

President Goodluck Jonathon declared a state of emergency in May this year in parts of the country's north as he sent the military in to fight the militants.

Boko Haram's insurgency is said to have cost at least 3,600 lives so far, including killings by security forces.

Major attacks:

July 2009: some 800 people were killed in five days of fighting between militants and the army in the north-eastern cities of Bauchi and Maiduguri. The attacks were sparked by the arrests of several Boko Haram members.
December 2010: the group said it was behind bombings in central Nigeria and attacks on churches in the north-east that led to the deaths of at least 86 people.
June 16, 2011: Boko Haram claims responsibility for a suicide bombing that tore through a car park outside Nigeria's police headquarters in Abuja.
On June 26, 2011 about 25 people were killed when several bombs exploded in the Dala ward of Maiduguri after suspected Boko Haram members threw bombs at a bar-cafe.
On August 26, 2011 a car bomb struck the UN building in Abuja. At least 23 were killed and 76 wounded by the bombing which gutted the ground floor and smashed almost all the windows.
They claimed responsibility on August 29, demanding the release of prisoners and an end to the security crackdown to prevent more bombings.
On November 5, 2011, a series of coordinated attacks across the north-eastern city of Damaturu left 150 people dead, with Boko Haram members warning more attacks would follow. Many people were also injured in the attacks which targeted police stations, churches and an army base.
June 2012: at least 50 killed when suicide bombers target three churches in Kaduna state. March 2013: At least 22 killed after suicide car bomb explodes at Kano bus station.
May 2013: At least 55 killed and more than 100 inmates freed in attacks on army posts and a prison in Bama.
September 2013: At least 40 sleeping students shot dead by militants as they slept in their college dorm in Gujba.

Boko Haram became active in 2003 and is concentrated in northern Nigeria.
Boko Haram, which means "Western education is sinful", is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
The group considers all who do not follow its strict ideology as infidels, whether they are Christian or Muslim.
It demands the adoption of Sharia law in all of Nigeria.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/s ... ms/4987926

[pioneer]

strong sauce there mamoo

[~Vēġó~]

this is quite disturbing...

[Fernandez:)]

Allah owe Akbar so long yet allah cant pay he up to now.


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