Death Toll In College Of Agriculture Yobe State Rises.

Suspected Islamic extremists have gunned down dozens of students as they slept in their dormitories during a night-time attack on an agricultural college in north-east Nigeria, the school's provost said. As many as 50 students may have been killed in the assault that began at about 1am local time on Sunday, said Molima Idi Mato, provost of the Yobe State College of Agriculture in Gujba. "They attacked our students while they were sleeping, they opened fire at them," he said, but could not give an exact death toll as security forces still were recovering bodies from the college. The Nigerian military had collected 42 bodies and transported 18 injured students to Damaturu specialist hospital, according to a military intelligence official. The death toll in attack at the College of Agriculture, Gujba, 50 KM from the Yobe state capital by men of the dreaded Boko Haram sect has risen to 67. This figure was confirmed by the state state commissioner of police, just as an eyewitness said he counted over 40 bodies at the main hospital in Yobe’s state capital Damaturu, mostly young men believed to be college students.
Bodies were recovered from dormitories, classrooms and outside in the undergrowth on Sunday, a member of staff at the college told Reuters, asking not to be named. The men of the Boko Haram sect who have in recent times produced to crumble the country stormed the school in the wee hours of Sunday and attacked one hostel, took some students outside before killing them and shot others trying to flee, people at the scene told Reuters.

 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,” said one surviving student Idris, who would only give his first name. “They came with guns around 1 a.m. (2400 GMT) 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,” said Ahmed Gujunba, a taxi driver who lives by the college.
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