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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Boko Haram have attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria killing 29 pupils; the majority died as a result of the Islamist group burning the school to the ground.
“Some of the students bodies were burned to ashes,” Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said on the Federal Government college of Buni Yadi, a secondary school in Yobe state. All those killed were boys. No girls were touched, Rufai told Reuters.
Boko Haram had just recently issued a threat stating it would be targeting Nigerian schools and refineries. The group has been racking up the body count; in the last two attacks more than 200 people were killed last week. In one attack the militants razed a whole village and shot panicked residents as they tried to flee.
The military are said to be in pursuit of the group, although to date they have not had much luck in capturing or even stopping any of the Boko Haram’s attacks. Addressing a news conference on February 24 Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, defended the military’s record, saying it had had some successes against Boko Haram. He also said Nigeria was working with the Cameroon authorities to try to prevent the militants from mounting attacks in Nigeria and then fleeing over the border. Nigeria has now closed the northern part of its border with Cameroon. The closure extends from Borno state to the southern end of Adamawa state; about 750 miles of border in all.
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