NIGERIA: Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Faudiya School, owned by a Shiia Islamic sect, in Geidam LGA of Yobe State, Northeastern Nigeria, killing at least three students, and wounding one other.
Eyewitnesses’ accounts of the incident said the youths were dragged out of their beds in the Islamic Sect of Nigeria-run school and shot in cold blood by the terrorists.
The victims were identified as Ahmed Abdulrahman, Abdullahi Adamu (both 21) and Muhammadu Saleh (22).
The incident invoked grim memories of the infamous attack by Boko Haram, which teaching forbids education, on students in Chibok in neighbouring Borno State, on the night of April 2014.
A police spokesman in the state, Dungus Abdulkarim, a deputy superintendent of police, confirmed the attack to newsmen.
His words: “It is confirmed, the divisional police headquarters at Geidam received the report this morning by a certain individual that there was an attack on a particular school.”
He said another wounded victim, Sani Haruna (25) was being treated in an unnamed medical facility in the area.
DSP Abdulkarim said the terrorists attacked the educational facilities in several motorcycles, saying, “We mobilised our men, and they went there and evacuated three dead persons and one with a bullet wound and was admitted to the hospital.”
“They entered the school and took four of the students and killed three instantly and injured one person.”
“The information we received from one of the injured persons was that the attackers invaded and told them they were there to abduct them to the forest and kill them, but they did not want to carry any load; in that regard, ‘we will just kill you here’.
“We are still investigating to find out the perpetrators and why the attack on the school.
“The attack occurred at exactly 3:45 to 4:00 am today (Friday). The school is a day and boarding school. There is a quarter in the school.”
The latest attack by Boko Haram came after the Nigerian Air Force claim of heavy bombardment of terrorist groups around the Lake Chad region.
