Fresh figures increasing the total number of casualties in
the inhuman attack on college students at the College of Agriculure, Gujba
,Yobe State are becoming frightening as total number of casualties hit 78. At
least 50 of these students were attacked with swords, knives and guns in the
early hours of yesterday morning as they slept in their hostel.
While some were
shot, others were butchered with swords and knives like animals. The gunmen,
suspected to be Boko Haram sect members later moved to houses around the
hostel, killing residents they find. They blocked the Damaturu-Maiduguri road
and freely killed travellers. At the time of this report, 78 bodies have so far
been counted, with many more still unaccounted for.
Read below the account of
one of the student who was lucky to have survived...
"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 left off the only female hostel.
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 while
the president was on air yesterday during a media chat saying he didn’t know if
Shekau was dead or alive!!
I have said more than enough words in the last sentence…I’m
moving on to the next story. #Eni ba lomo#
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