{"id":10673,"date":"2013-09-29T05:55:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T05:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-islamist-gunmen-attack-college\/"},"modified":"2013-09-29T05:54:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T05:54:48","slug":"nigerian-islamist-gunmen-attack-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-islamist-gunmen-attack-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Islamist Gunmen Attack College"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{A number of students are feared dead after suspected Islamist gunmen struck a college in north-eastern Nigeria.}}<\/p>\n

The students were shot dead as they slept in their dormitory at the College of Agriculture in Yobe state.<\/p>\n

North-eastern Nigeria is under a state of emergency amid an Islamic insurgency by the Boko Haram group.<\/p>\n

Boko Haram is fighting to overthrow Nigeria’s government to create an Islamist state, and has launched a number of attacks on schools.<\/p>\n

The number of casualties in the latest attack is unclear but there are fears the death toll could be high.<\/p>\n

A military spokesman in Yobe state, Lazarus Eli, told Agence France-Presse news agency said the gunmen had also set fire to classrooms.<\/p>\n

The college is in the rural Gujba district.<\/p>\n

In June, Boko Haram carried out two attacks on schools in the region.<\/p>\n

At least nine children were killed in a school on the outskirts of Maiduguri, while 13 students and teachers were killed in a school in Damaturu.<\/p>\n

In July in the town of Mamudo, Islamist militants attacked dormitories with guns and explosives, killing at least 42 people, mostly students.<\/p>\n

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