Residents said the gunmen invaded Government Secondary School, Mamudo, along Damaturu-Potiskum Highway, shooting sporadically.
The students were said to be deep asleep when the attackers came. They set fire to buildings and shot pupils as they tried to flee, a police source said. Survivors said suspected militants arrived with containers of fuel, which they sprayed on buildings before setting them ablaze.
“About 29 corpses of students and a malam (teacher) were evacuated from the scene of the attack this morning,” the source said.
Some students who suffered injuries from gunshots and burns from fire are receiving treatment in a hospital in nearby Potiskum town.
Chaotic scenes were reported at the hospital, where shocked parents struggled to identify their children among the charred bodies and gunshot victims.
Crying over the bodies of his two boys, a farmer, Malam Abdullahi swore to withdraw his three remaining sons from a nearby school. Abdullahi lamented that there was no protection for students despite the deployment of troops since President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the state, Adamawa and Bornu.
There was no official reaction either from the Joint Task Force (JTF), the police or state government as at press time. Sources, however, said the JTF had already cordoned off the area.
The incident was second of deadly attacks by insurgents on schools and students in Yobe State.
Six students, two teachers and a resident were killed at the Government Secondary (boys only) School, Damaturu when gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram attacked the school last month.
Also in neighbouring Maiduguri, Borno State capital and epicentre of the insurgency, nine students and six teachers were killed when the armed sect stormed a public school within the metropolis, shooting sporadically at final year students who were writing their National Examination Council (NECO).
Source: SunNewspaper
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