Yobe school killings: Islamic extremists kill 42 people in Nigeria massacre, Yobe school killings are the latest violent deaths to make the news this week, as The Independent reported this Monday, July 8, that Nigeria has been forced to close nearly all of its secondary education level schools in the state of Yobe after Islamic extremists killed at least 42 students in the area. The Islamic extremist attack was said by witnesses to be that of a “massacre.”
The Yobe school killings were the result of both bombs and guns used in the violent assault against a secondary level boarding school. The fatal attack that claimed 42 lives took place this Saturday afternoon, and the governer of Yobe recently said in a statement:
“[All schools have been] directed to be closed down in the state from Monday 8th July 2013 until a new academic session begins in September.”
The school killings mark not the first or second, but the third attack on the education system in Nigeria this 2013, as well as the second offensive from Islamic extremists in the state of Yobe.
It has been confirmed that Boko Haram Islamists were behind the massacre, having marched staff and secondary level students into a room, locking them in, then tossing bombs inside. They were afterwards reported to have fired guns into the building, and setting it on fire.
The Yobe school killings are thought by Nigerian residents to possibly be payback for the deaths of 22 Boko Islam members that died in a state military raid in the area last week.
The shooting and killing of a Coptic priest in Egypt also made headlines this week following what is believed to be another Islam extremist attack.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Yobe school killings: Islamic extremists kill 42 people in Nigeria massacre
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