Death Toll From Yobe Girls College Massacre Rises To 43

The death toll from a school massacre in Yobe by suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Tuesday has risen to 43, a hospital source in the troubled northeastern Yobe state said.

“Ambulances have been bringing in bodies from Federal Government College in (the town of Buni Yadi,” a senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Yobe’s capital Damaturu told AFP.

“So far 43 bodies have been brought and are lying at the morgue,” he said, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to discuss death tolls.

Yobe’s police chief Sanusi Rufai told AFP that 29 people were killed but it was not immediately clear if all of the dead were students.

Rufai said he was en route to Buni Yadi with Yobe’s covernor Ibrahim Geidam to assess the extent of the damage.

Yobe is one of three northeastern states which was placed under emergency rule in May last year when the military launced a massive operation to crush the Boko Haram uprising.

At least 40 students were killed in September at an agriculture training college in Yobe after Boko Haram gunmen stormed a series of dorms in the middle of the night and sprayed gunfire on sleeping students.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in the northeast since the emergency measures were imposed, despite the enhanced military presence.

Boko Haram, declared a terrorist organisation by Nigeria and the United States, has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north.

Geidam and the governor of neighbouring Borno state, Kashim Shettima, have fiercely criticised the military’s record in combatting Boko Haram, insisting that more resources were needed to defeat the emboldened and increasingly well-armed insurgents.

In a video sent to AFP last week, Boko Haram’s purported leader, Abubakar Shekau, said he would continue his relentless campaign of violence on anyone who supports democracy or so-called Western values.

Shekau, declared a global terrorist by the United States, also threated to widen the insurgency outside the group’s northeastern stronghold with attacks in the oil-producing, southern Niger Delta region.

Nigeria is Africa’s top oil producer and an Islamist attack in the country’s key economic region would pile further pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan, who has faced scathing criticism over his handling of the Boko Haram crisis. [AFP]

16 COMMENTS

  1. Can these Islamist offer anything good,but death?
    Death amongst themselves, Death to any body of different relgious beliefs…DEATH…DEATH…
    DEATH…when will they ever think of giving life?
    WHERE IS THE PEACE IN ISLAM?

  2. This is not Islam and they are not muslim, somepeople, somewhere were trying to tarnish the images of muslim.
    Most of these students are muslims if not all, how will they be killing muslims alike. God will soon espose people responsible for this.

  3. PROEST! PROTEST!! PROTEST!!!The height of killings in Maiduguri and Yobe is enough, the neglect from the leadership of this nation is enough. The level of cowardice in our youth is enough. All the wickedness is enough! This is time for action! We are calling on all youths in Nigeria and the entire North to join us in Unity Fountain, Abuja on Thursday, 27th February, 2014 at 10am for a Protest against the Poor handling of the Insecurity Crisis in the North Eastern States. Enough of politics with the lives of innocent women and children, we need a proactive measure to end the crisis and we want the people, children and women in the war zones to be protected. COME AND EXERCISE YOUR CIVIC RIGHT TO SAVE CITIZENS LIVES! KINDLY BROADCAST THIS MESSAGE IN ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS INCLUDING, BB, WHATSAPP, LINKEDIN, GOOGLE PLUS, VIBER, ETC.

  4. Let dem continue killing themselves 4 nothing sake. It is not religious matter, it is political. Boko haram has been formed many yrs ago according to dem but why they did not operate then? Till now, what is wrong with western education to start with? Another administration shall come and we shall know if they (boko haram) will continue

  5. Who say they are not Muslim or Islam? Shakau said and i quote ( my orders are from the holy quran) which is true, read ur own quran in chapter 9 verse 3&4, verse 5and 13 read also chapter 5:51. 47:3-5 and tell me if u urself are a Muslim and don’t know about these verses and many more that encourages war, fights and killings of none Muslims. May God help us all, Amen. Jesus remains the only way to God!!! The bible tell us to strive 4 for peace nomatter how hard we should follow peace with all men. I love Nigeria and i love my religion.

  6. (In a video sent to AFP last week, Boko Haram’s purported leader, Abubakar Shekau, said he would continue his relentless campaign of violence on anyone who supports democracy or so-called Western values.)
    Western education is forbidden! but you are fighting with western ammunition(Mobile phone-western, bomb-western, clothes-western, video message-western). Why not with bow and arrow that the northerner are known for?

  7. Anybody with the intention to rubish Islam could do more than what Shekau and his allies are doing. They are never muslims and they are not fighting for Islam. All of you that are making unguided utterances about Islam should desist for your own good.

  8. You are all Stupid,senceless talking whenever you analise matter pls first of all go deep to the root of a matter second,throw away all the zeal sentiment,religios and any other differences out of your mind thereafter you fine the truth solution.robbish,go sitdown (arm robbers and topical fihermen know nothing)

  9. It will b hard for nigeria to over power dis BH, because nigeria does nt hv good technology device like other country. Second our boarder is useless some terrorist can easy enter nigeria frm dose ISIS country. To give BH ideals to operate with. Nobody can ever identify dose men dey will enter D country free n fair n go free n fair. Wht nigeria needs to end dis BH is wisdom men in our militry n nt curropt men.