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Monday, July 8, 2013
More than 25 students and one teacher were killed in the Nigerian state of Yobe in a attack by suspected Islamists. The school, located in Mamudo, was attacked in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, leaving an unconfirmed total of 30 dead, 29 of them children.
Eyewitnesses said some of the victims were burned alive in the attack, some were shot trying to flee the scene. This is not the first school burned by Islamists, since 2010 dozens of schools have been targeted and razed.
According to an AP report, the scene at the hospital in the neighboring Potiskum was chaotic with traumatized parents there to identify their children among the charred bodies and gunshot victims.
Survivors said suspected militants arrived with containers full of fuel and set fire to the school.
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