Sad at 53! Death Toll Rises To 78 In Yobe College Of Agriculure Student Attack

* Still counting with many more people still
unaccounted for as the death toll rises to 78 in
Yobe College of Agriculure. Early hours of
yesterday, students were attacked, some were
shot, others were butchered with swords and
knives. The gunmen, suspected to be Boko
Haram sect members later moved to houses
around the hostel, killing residents they find.
They also blocked the Damaturu-Maiduguri road
and killed travellers.
Read below what a student of the college who
survived the massacre said…
“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. They came with
guns around 1a.m. 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.”
The gunmen stormed the hostels in two double-
cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on
motorcycles, and were dressed in military
camouflage. They attacked 4 male hostels but
avoided the only hostel reserved for girls.
Swords and knives were used to kill at least 30
male students. Some corpses that were found
were without heads while others had heads
hanging to the bodies. Wailing parents and
relatives were at the Sani Abacha Specialist
Hospital mortuary in Damaturu this morning to
identify their loved ones. This can’t continue.
This government has to do something about the
situation