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.
