Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect yesterday killed 29 students and an English language teacher during an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Yobe State. LEADERSHIP Sunday learnt that the survivors of the attack were undergoing treatment for burns and gunshot wounds at the Potsikum General Hospital and other hospitals in the neighbouring communities.
It was also learnt that some students were burnt alive in the attack which took the school authorities unawares. The gunmen allegedly struck at the Government Secondary School in Mamudo around 3am.
According to agency reports, the insurgents set parts of the school complex on fire. Dozens of the school children were said to have escaped into the bush and have not been located by their parents who rushed to the school and screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred bodies of the victims.
A 15-year-old, Musa Hassan, who also survived the attack, said he awoke to find one of the attackers pointing a gun at him.
At Potsikum General Hospital, Hassan said: “We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me.”
He put up his hands in defence and was shot in his right hand, the one he uses to write with, and lost four fingers. The child said the gunmen stormed the school with jerry cans of fuel that they used to burn the children alive, the school’s administrative block and one of the hostels.
A farmer, Malam Abdullahi, found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest. He said he would withdraw his three remaining sons from another school in the neighbourhood.
Abdullahi complained there was no protection for students despite the deployment of thousands of troops since the federal government declared a state of emergency mid-May in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.
“It’s not safe,” he said. “The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers.”
Meanwhile, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has described the killing of the students and the teacher in Mamudo as “ignoble, wicked and horrendous”.
In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by his special adviser on media and public affairs, Malam Imam Imam, Tambuwal tasked security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act and bring them justice.
He said the gains recorded by security agencies in their battle against terror in the country in recent weeks should be built upon in order to protect the citizens at all times.
In Taraba State, suspected armed robbers numbering about 10 on Friday night attacked a branch of a new generation bank in Karim-Lamido local government area as well as burnt the divisional police headquarters in the area.
The robbers stormed the area at 8.30 pm with heavy weapons and shot sporadically into the air to scare residents away from the scene.
After invading the bank, the robbers headed for the police station and burnt it
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