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Africa Subsaharan
Thirty killed in alleged Boko Haram attack on Nigeria boarding school
2013-07-06
Thirty people have been killed in an attack on a northeastern Nigeria boarding school, after gunmen alleged to be affiliated with the extremist Boko Haram group stormed the campus, shooting some children and burning others alive.

"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots," said 15-year-old Musa Hassan to the Associated Press who was shot in his writing hand, losing four fingers. " When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me."

Hassan said the gunment used a jerrycan full of fuel to torch a hostel and an administrative building, burning children alive. Many of the bodies are too badly charred to be identified, leaving many parents in doubt as to whether their children managed to escape the attack alive.

The attack took place at the Government Secondary Schoo in Mamudo town in Nigeria's Yobe state, and appears to be the latest in a series of violent attacks on schools instigated by Boko Haram, which is stridently opposed to Western education. "Boko Haram" translates directly to "Western education is sacrilege."
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