Thursday, July 11, 2013

Militants Attack School in Nigeria, Killing Students and a Teacher

POTISKUM, Nigeria -- Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn on Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast.

MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/world/africa/militants-kill-students-and-teacher-in-nigeria.html?_r=1&

See also...

Gunmen kill 20 students, teacher in Nigerian school shooting
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/world/africa/nigeria-school-shooting/index.html

Violence flares in tense Nigerian regionhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/world/africa/nigeria-violence/index.html