BOKO HARAM: Death Toll Rises To 43 After Boko Haram Attack On Yobe State School - Medical Source

Yobe State - Death toll from a Buni Yadi school massacre by suspected Boko Haram gunmen has risen to 43. 
It will be recalled that in the early hours of Tuesday, February 25, Boko Haram militants stormed the Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Gujba LGA of Yobe State.
According to a senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Damaturu, Yobe State, so far the ambulances have brought 43 bodies to the morgue.
Military spokesman in Yobe State Eli Lazarus disclosed that at around 2 a.m., suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked a students' hostel at the Federal Government College, a school for students aged 11 to 18 in the town of Buni Yadi.
It was gathered that the assailants arrived in 6 Toyota Hilux pickup trucks and motorcycles.
"Some of the students bodies were burned to ashes," said police commissioner Sanusi Rufai, adding 24 staff quarters, including the administrative block of the college and students' hostel, were razed by the fire.
According to eyewitnesses, the attackers started the operation at around midnight and continued until after 4 a.m. The students were both slaughtered and shot.
The military has already been dispatched to the area.
The latest attack is the fourth recorded on schools in Yobe State. GSS Damaturu, GSS Mamudo and College of Agriculture, Gujba were attacked last year.
Yobe, together with Borno and Adamawa States, has been under emergency rule since May 2013 to help the military to curb the Boko Haram activities.
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