{{The European Union has condemned the “horrific murder by terrorists” of dozens of people, mostly students, in an attack on a secondary school in Nigeria.}}<\/p>\n
The attack, blamed on the rebel group Boko Haram, happened on Saturday at a school in Mamudo, Yobe, one of three states where the government declared a state of emergency in May in a push to rein in the group.<\/p>\n
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the horrific murder by terrorists of some 30 innocent children and a teacher early on Saturday morning in a school in Mamudo town in northeastern Nigeria,” Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said on Sunday in a statement.<\/p>\n
Ashton promised Nigerians her “solidarity and determination to help them bring security, peace and reconciliation to the north”, and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.<\/p>\n
Survivors of the dawn attack said gunmen rounded up students and staff at the school in Nigeria’s restive northeast and placed them in a dormitory before throwing explosives inside and opening fire.<\/p>\n
A hospital official in nearby Potiskum said 42 people were killed. A spokesman for Nigeria’s military, which often underplays casualty figures, said 20 students and one teacher were killed.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram, which means “Western education is a sin”, has killed hundreds of students in attacks on schools in the region in recent months.<\/p>\n
Nigeria launched a major offensive against Boko Haram on May 15, battling anti-government fighters in the states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno.<\/p>\n
The ongoing offensive has forced thousands of Nigerians from their homes into refuge in neighbouring countries of Niger and Cameroon.<\/p>\n
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