At least four more victims of Tuesday’s early-morning attack on the Federal Government College Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State have died, bringing the death toll to 43.
According to a source in Damaturu, capital of the northeastern state, corpses bought into the hospital number 43 in all.
“Ambulances have been bringing in bodies from Federal Government College in (the town of Buni Yadi,” a senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital, Damaturu told French news agency, AFP, anonymously.
“So far, 43 bodies have been brought and are lying at the morgue”.
A resident in the area had initially told Abuja-based newspaper, Dailytrust, that he counted 39 lifeless bodies after the four-hour attack ended at about 4am.
“The attackers started the operation around 12:15 unperturbed until after 4am. The gunmen slaughtered the students and shot at them with guns”, the resident had said. “It was too horrible because some of the students were slaughtered, while others were burnt inside the hostel”.
In a similar attack in the state in September 2013, at least 40 students were murdered at an agriculture training college when Boko Haram gunmen stormed its hostels in the middle of the night and shot the students to death right in their sleep.
Only yesterday during his sixth presidential media chat, President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that despite the resurgence of terrorism in the North-East, his government has recorded “lots of success” that people are ignoring.
“We are working very hard and there are successes, but nobody talks about successes. They only talk about the failures”, he said, before assuring: “I promise Borno communities that we will continue to improve”.
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