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Islamist group named ‘Western Education is Forbidden’ slaughters 43 boys in Nigerian school after storming the building with guns, machetes and firebombs Suspected militants from Al-Quaeda affiliated group burned children aliveTeacher says they set locked hostel on fire then shot and slit the throats of children who tried to escape through the windowsOther reports suggest attackers threw explosives, sprayed rooms with gunfire and used machetes to hack pupils to deathAttack brings toll from Boko Haram attacks to more than 300 this monthBy CHRIS PLEASANCEPUBLISHED: 06:55 EST, 25 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:48 EST, 25 February 2014Suspected Islamic militants killed 43 students in a pre-dawn attack Tuesday on a northeast Nigerian college, survivors said. The terrorists, thought to be from Boko Haram, set a locked hostel on fire, before shooting and slitting the throats of those who tried to climb out the windows. Some were burned alive.Adamu Garba said he and other teachers who ran away through the bush estimate 40 students died in the assault that began around 2 a.m. Tuesday at the Federal Government College at Buni Yadi.It is a co-ed school about 45 miles south of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, and difficult to communicate with because extremists last year destroyed the cell phone tower there.Garba, who teaches at a secondary school attached to the college, said the attackers first set ablaze the college administrative block, then moved to the hostels, where they locked students in and started firebombing the buildings.At one hostel, he said: 'Students were trying to climb out of the windows and they were slaughtered like sheep by the terrorists who slit their throats. Others who ran were gunned down.' He said students who could not escape were burned alive.The attackers also reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number students to death. A senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Yobe's capital Damaturu said the gunmen only targeted male students and that female students were 'spared'.'So far, 43 bodies have been brought (from the college) and are lying at the morgue,' said the source, who requested anonymity as he was not authorised to discuss death tolls. Damaturu resident Babagoni Musa told AFP that four ambulances carrying dead bodies drove past his shop, which falls on the road from Buni Yadi.'They had tree branches on them which is a sign used here to signify a corpse is in a vehicle,' he said.People whose relatives were studying at the college had surrounded the morgue and were desperately seeking information about those killed, forcing the military to take control of the building to restore calm, the hospital source said.
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